SUMMARY Note: this may be a bug in a Framework or elsewhere, but this is where it manifests itself. Since about one week (today: 2022-05-10) the Quick Launch applet does no longer start added applications, but instead opens them with the program associated to .desktop files (in this case, it ended up being Kate). STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Add a Quick Launch applet to the desktop 2. Add any launcher (e.g. Konsole) 3. Click on Konsole OBSERVED RESULT The associated application for .desktop files opens (in my case, Kate). EXPECTED RESULT Konsole (or any other application added) should launch. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS KDE Plasma Version: Latest master as of 2022-05-09 KDE Frameworks Version: Latest master as of 2022-05-09 Qt Version: 5.15.3 + KDE patches
Git commit 450361eafe0f9048a70ebb1ff3b4da061d68afd0 by Nicolas Fella. Committed on 10/05/2022 at 08:19. Pushed by nicolasfella into branch 'master'. [applets/quicklaunch] Fix launching apps The url to run is usually a desktop file Enable executing it instead of opening in a text editor M +1 -0 applets/quicklaunch/plugin/quicklaunch_p.cpp https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kdeplasma-addons/commit/450361eafe0f9048a70ebb1ff3b4da061d68afd0