Customized Global Shortcut for Activate Application Launcher Widget won't be permanent.

[Hans Milos Toquica Cáceres]

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open Global Keyboard Shortcuts.
2. Select the plasmashell KDE Component.
3. Customize "Activate Application Launcher Widget" keyboard shortcut (Apply the settings).
4. Restart the system.

What Happens:
Customized setting is reset to default.

What is expected:
Able to pull up the Application Launcher with the customized Global Shortcut.

Temporary workaround:
Right click the Application Launcher Icon and select "Application Launcher Settings..." from the context menu, customize the keyboard shortcut.

I tried askubuntu, but they deleted my question as off-topic because Kubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet with Plasma 5 haven't been released.

Aditional info is that this is not an upgrade, but a fresh install.

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Erik Sonnleitner (esonn)]

~/.config/kglobalshortcutsrc is being overwritten with the default shortcut (alt-f1) immediately after new login to plasma5; it however, works works for an entire session when not logging out. Other shortcuts worked permanently for me.

[Christian Sørensen (chr2stian)]

I can confirm this annoying bug. Especially it is a big issue for me that I have to deactivate the Shift+Ctrl+C shortcut for "Activate Icon Widget" that conflict with the default settings to Copy selected text in Konsole.

Is there an easy workaround besides making the ~/.config/kglobalshortcutsrc read only?

[Termy (saldorin)]

I can confirm this bug in 16.04. Had a hard time finding it as i only changed this shortcut and searched for resetting shortcuts in general, but only now noticing that other shortcuts work fine.
Setting the ~/.config/kglobalshortcutsrc read-only doesn't work for me btw, the content stays fine, but the shortcut doesn't work nevertheless.