STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Upgrade plasma to 5.24.0 2. Configure plasma to use the Application Launcher (in my case I set it up to appear when clicking the desktop) 3. Click an application entry in the Application Launcher widget, for example: firefox OBSERVED RESULT A kwrite (or other text editor) session is launched with the application desktop file opened, for example: firefox.desktop EXPECTED RESULT Firefox would be launched SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: KDE Neon 5.24 User Edition KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.0 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.90.0 Qt Version: 5.15.3
For what it's worth: I came here to report this bug, too. I can reproduce it on a different distribution (openSUSE Tumbleweed) using very similar steps. The only difference being, that I set up the Application Launcher to appear when right clicking the desktop. This worked as expected with the following SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS: Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20220206 KDE Plasma Version: 5.23.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.90.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 Kernel Version: 5.16.4-1-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight-Core Processor Memory: 15.6 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT I at least hope, that this is the same bug. It seems similar enough to me so that I did not want to create a duplicated bug report. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Upgrade plasma to 5.24.0 2. Configure plasma to use the Application Launcher (in my case I set it up to appear when _right-clicking_ the desktop) 3. Click an application entry in the Application Launcher widget, for example: firefox OBSERVED RESULT A kwrite (or other text editor) session is launched with the application desktop file opened, for example: firefox.desktop EXPECTED RESULT Firefox would be launched SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20220207 KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.0 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.90.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 Kernel Version: 5.16.5-1-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight-Core Processor Memory: 15.6 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 449900 ***