[kstart] [Bug 456589] kstart5 fails to launch applications when arguments supplied

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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=456589

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--- Comment #1 from gima+bugs-kde at iki.fi ---
# PROBLEM

When pressing keyboard shortcut to launch an application. (In this case: Visual
Studio Code.)

Error message appears in `journalctl --user --follow`:
> Jul 18 12:51:57 sm kglobalaccel5[2357]: kstart: Unknown option 'unity-launch'.


# ADDITIONAL NECESSARY DETAILS
(this is where the "unity-launch" comes from)
> cat /usr/share/applications/code-oss.desktop | grep --perl '\[|Exec|Name'

> [Desktop Entry]
> Name=Code - OSS
> GenericName=Text Editor
> Exec=/usr/bin/code-oss --unity-launch %F
> 
> [Desktop Action new-empty-window]
> Name=New Empty Window
> Exec=/usr/bin/code-oss --new-window %F


# VERSIONS

Plasma: plasma-desktop 5.25.3-1
KDE: frameworkintegration 5.96.0-1
Qt5: qt5-base 5.15.5+kde+r170-1
Qt6:: qt6-base 6.3.1-1

/usr/bin/kstart is owned by kde-cli-tools 5.25.3-1 at
https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/blob/20eef2b9a3a158f66b1296cd7fa7d9e8b4bcb606/trunk/PKGBUILD

kglobalaccel 5.96.0-1 at
https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/blob/3ff4c4f522e831aa06d00d44a1d0a3ce5ac17827/trunk/PKGBUILD

Operating System: Arch Linux                      
Kernel: Linux 5.18.12-arch1-1
Architecture: x86-64


# OTHER

Suggestion: change title
  from "kstart5 fails to launch applications when arguments supplied"
  to: "kstart fails to launch application when it's .desktop entry contains
arguments"

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