Pinned Virtualbox icon doesn't work properly on KDE Plasma 5.12 and can cause the system to feel laggy

Bug #1769417 reported by Nate Graham
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Bug Description

Upgraded from Artful to Bionic (KDE Plasma 5.11 to 5.12). In Bionic with 5.12, There's something wrong with how Virtualbox (5.2.10-dfsg-6) launches after being pinned to the Task Manager. When you click on the pinned icon, a second one opens. See the attached video.

If you attempt to pin the second icon, garbage is written to ~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc:

[Containments][2][Applets][21][Configuration][General]
launchers=applications:org.kde.discover.desktop,applications:org.kde.dolphin.desktop,applications:systemsettings.desktop,applications:firefox.desktop,applications:thunderbird.desktop,applications:telegramdesktop.desktop,applications:org.gnome.Lollypop.desktop,applications:org.kde.konsole.desktop,applications:org.kde.kate.desktop,applications:virtualbox.desktop,file:///usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox?iconData=iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAEAAAABACAYAAACqaXHeAAAACXBIWXMAAA7EAAAOxAGVKw4bAAAJYUlEQVR4nOWbW2wU1xnHf7vLrm3isBgo8dohkFYuTQgQoI242FaCVHF56lOp1CD1oS-VkodUeUgfKqVS1beqlaKmL1FUqX0iqpSqauOGkoCpC0QUQkMoxCY22LXBYHz37tzO6cOZ2TkzO3vxsosN_UtHu3Pmf8583_985ztnZmfh_xyxwNFrw004iR8R4wdIti6RTfVBjM-Q_I6E81t-tSHrV3t4bbgdO_FB65r41iPdzWx9OsWmTBILEICQIJfA7sXCs1EANmBKuDpq8emAwam-eWamrM-J5Q7yVscIeAK8-XmKiZbze55t2Prmyy0kkzEMCTkBhgBbgiODF1jO8Gx0UAJkBcxKGM9J3j92j9GB-f8w_sddvPfj7AoA7qRfyayLb33j-y2IRIwpG2bdsmCD7YogHwbvNQjUwOUkzAqYEjGeP5Bmctx8Jmvsfx34uRIgxtHD3c1YiRgzNkybMJGDqSwsmGDaIMTDMfo6JGrqGgLmBBiORUxm2fhMgqsTjUeBX65wmc9u7mhkyoEZA8bn4O4cTM4rARzHnQJeWe7QUruUYEiwbBtp5YiLLE1JE5JNG4G0K4BMJR-PM2nCxALcmoG7M_DnzqWxv9bY-SeBsC2kaYJlIB0TZGMKeFwJgMQkxoIN0zmYXoDZhSW1uaaQQoDjIC0bx7AQlgU0AKTiigGmgKwF2RwYBtj2UppcY0gJQiKFBFsgbcebyrG4R7Clm-0dd847S2lxjZHPX2opk46_pHlJ0Dunsn2RRLfz_Qdj7_3iwnfKELRkns8BmkBKgCgRHoYVIAoyXHwH8zkgskHZjqovu9aW56STsK2liv4rtdsXQAZGPx8F4X4iONWW17dBU6I0Z896eKlt8X1XYrdHzAsQqValSi6ytDbB5tWwa11pXlcrHHiyimuUsjt_HBAgolEd0ZVxP1tL83Y_Aa0roSNdByMCU8A7qnYuLbJ4jndlinM6VkFLg-Id2rDIa5SzW_PZnwIyokEdBGiIwwvrVXetK5WjUbxOLTo6SwhVlQCFU-DBRcAL66EhUd65rjaf05GGTc01ECDgQ0AA96mPdq5eq8Chp4J9dmUKOauSsH1tkPdSe-XXqMRuT5AHugrEgb2ZYJfb16n1XuftbYV48Gkl-xezGkTZXWB_1BSIalRDAbavhXQq2GU85oqi8brbKMBza1XOqEkO0Hx-oDmgK8IxcB3Wo6QI78X2Ggjg-VuwD9DDRP-spQDt0Y7tbXMNke6USEXzDjxVAwFCvEAEeMmhHkmwdSV0rPb7-uug_z2dgm3rFE-PkrF5uDjuH2__CqxKlb9WObv1HLAiz4hSLIRLRwvrdId-crr4-UObgsfvXoYd6yHzmDruboeLt4NRcnoE-qcUD1S-OLARjl0rfp1IREZAOAdUEkolsK8NkrFiF4PuJ33u2Dz034O_3_DrutohsxI6Wvy6j27C6eHgdboryQPlBPB8ZrHLYAmkG2B3kU1NOqXC18PpYVV_QhOgowW-u9k_njbg3CiMzcGVCb9-d5ubI-47BwQE0Ih6g0XixSJ79n1twXX9oxuq_tJt5aiHo1v8733_VU-nkHB8yK9PxlV_VQlAIS8fAd5vf4LiyWTbu4Xl4m3__Lc3qUfy4aTTpYX_tAFnR1W9I6BvJOich95hv33vzaAd-zdWlwTxZnpkDgirVWEo9WpzNN0AO9cHz8eBfZoAfSP-yCKh58vCy1gC-oZ9Tv89uD7ln-_eoG6qajgFpE_UbwrCEIXl-PUg5eDTwfOd7UoYD703g-fPjIARegR_ZgSms0HeySH_fEMC9rRF24OowO6SEeAJUaGSN6fVCHnoCm1Wujdodkjouxk8b1gq2enoDXGQcGIoyDn41Wh7qk6CXt1i76qkhI814zLNsOMJbf5rd38XbsFUrrD9h6Fp0HujkPPZbbUieNi3ITrfVH83qGdJ_bOsktAzEKR1u1HQ0aIE8dAzEN3-5KCKDlDRNDYbzevVls10A3QWe1JUkd2KGNwJ6h0U6ygC_RNqdDxnD3fAr8-6QmjoHYruYzoHn96CnRn4yxfFr9MzAEe0pfI3h6J5kXaHfatVDvCKngwzzdCxBro3-nX9E8VHFuknud4bxTkXRoP7hopRPgdIChVanAAnQqvBD3fA89pzvVKOIaGnXwnUf7c4Rwg3imovgKrTN0GLvRu8OAaTWZ97-OvB3d-pwdLtR2fgnX-V5kgJH_RX4b8-vp5vrn-Fd4PlkkkRCAkfDsCRiJfrxmZV-JbDe5dLXwOgdxCee6s05_KroYqKp0C4QRglQhipRjnS6KHybb0Qr4RXtlRktyJGrwJVRADAmZsqo6cbg_WnBsu3rSvCPkXlgKLkYh1FFMuGfwwFmxg2nIvY2dW1lLNb89m_G3QrpXQ3JREdlUtQUsLHoV3d2WHIWZW1rVWpxO7oKRBWLErJMvh4AHI2NLqvXvRcq6xdXRE1_wNTwLOwqmQSLDnLDXnUu4WnrlfW7oFOAen7XPhYXG9UhQBI6Lmq6JdG3dva5SiAyyv-y9B94NSX7uhHPOxYNqjHMuhhOgsXRqDXC_-lRpRfQQFUff5BkIwOisUEytv_hGvj5XkPAvnsj58DPSHyr8mF18f7iQCAc0NVWFovlEiC-QgIkyNHezmEczXQHRdaKKDlgPydIMVD_cobdTe1jgiNavhmSEj1nN4RwTnySMDd3koh1Jvj2vvA-Z8iDOH-seBRfFnadR7hqCJ95_IRMGNI5myYt2HBAtt5dEJACgvpmH7RIsBLgubYhJGynEbmsza26SBsyTd-pncTK-x52UI5J6UAYSPtHMJcQJhZhGVgGw44pgFIT4BPRv99p3PN19YgDAthOIicgJjndEz7vsyRT3QSKRwQFtI2EOY8wppH2gbZWcCcuAWYrgDi9zf-Nty56mjSFcDCMbQ_DrjOx5Z5FEg9cwsBUqjwtw0VBY6BcAQzk0mYunwSmFUebTmWomVNX3pT8zfbt6ex7prYsxbSEcXXxGUOKV0BpAOOhRQ2QkgmxlPkJsdHufjq97DvnPeHtKsngyP_kHysaf_qTIoEDivignis2C-lyxxSIpE4tsAywDRizE0ncGaHrjP49k-ZPH8cmAjHdIJvHXuFFQ0vE2_aQmxF01LYXnMI08C8O8zMlZN88Yt3gAFgCnCiJnUMaARWAc3u9wTanuEhg_c_6hwwB8wABm5Y_w8xjjBKRA1URgAAAABJRU5ErkJggg%3D%3D

Having a line in the file that's this long causes Plasma to bog down and feel slow and laggy. I've filed an upstream bug: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=393895

Revision history for this message
Nate Graham (pointedstick) wrote :
description: updated
Revision history for this message
Darin Miller (darinmiller) wrote :

Confirmed the duplicate icon behavior as shown in the video.

Changed in virtualbox (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Nate Graham (pointedstick) wrote :

Apparently this is an app bug that's already been fixed upstream: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/12534

Could we cherry-pick the fix?

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