https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448609

--- Comment #29 from Nicolas Fella <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to adamska156 from comment #28)
> After some serious investigation I think I've found a workaround that seems
> to have fixed my personal issue, at least until I ever use kmenuedit again.
> 
> Using Kfind I did a deep search and discovered that all the app entries I
> deleted using kmenuedit had their desktop files moved to
> ~/.local/share/kglobalaccel. Moving or deleting those desktop files from
> that folder removed the entries from the kcm_keys "Applications" section.
> 
> However, interestingly they were then suddenly showing up further down in
> the "System Services" section. After some more digging the only mentions I
> could find of some of those applications on my entire system were in the
> applications-kmenuedit.menu file. Carefully deleting the remaining mentions
> of those files there somehow removed them from kcm_keys altogether. 
> 
> This suggests to me, as far as the 'dummy application entries' bug goes,
> this may be more of a kmenuedit bug than kcm_keys. Why does deleting entries
> send desktop files to the kglobalaccel folder? Then again, why did mere
> mentions of those applications in applications-kmenuedit.menu cause those
> entries to show up in kcm_keys, but only if they were previously moved to
> kglobalaccel.
> 
> It's a strange cascade of issues to be sure. Maybe the simplest
> investigation would be the first question of why those desktop files get
> moved to kglobalaccel in the first place.

Good find, this is definitely *one* source of issues.

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