SUMMARY I have turned off all search plugins in the "Plasma Search" section of the setting app except for the "Applications" plugin. Despite this, when I search using the Application Menu (The basic one) it still shows a separate section with system settings. The problem can be temporarily fixed by re-enabling then re-disabling the system settings search plugin, but it returns after rebooting the computer. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. In the plasma search section of the settings application, disable all search plugins except for "Applications" 2. Reboot the computer 3. Search for an installed application using the Application Menu search OBSERVED RESULT After a while, usually after a reboot, the system settings plugin will reappear when searching in Application Menu and will display system settings results EXPECTED RESULT To only display installed applications SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Fully updated Fedora 41 KDE 6.3.2 I have noticed the bug for many months in different distros, so it it is also present in previous versions of plasma I am able to supply more info if needed
I'll add that despite displaying the results of the System Settings search plugin, the plugin still remains disabled within settings
Can reproduce. The code is a little wonky here: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/blob/master/applets/kicker/package/contents/ui/main.qml?ref_type=heads#L149 It always starts with the same set of 6 hardcoded runners, and then you can optionally configure it to add more from a second hardcoded list, but not permanently subtract any. I'd say we should remove all this stuff and just have it always use the set of runners configured systemwide.
I'm terribly sorry, I don't know anything about programming and have no idea how to make the changes you suggested. I just thought I should let someone know as it was something that I'd noticed for a while now
No worries, you aren't expected to. :) Hopefully someone will be able to get to this eventually.