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1. Dolphin opens .desktop files in kate instead of executing them
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Dolphin opens .desktop files in kate instead of executing them

A bug that appeared after migration from Buster to Bullseye (Bullseye/Plasma 5.20.5/Dolphin 20.12.2) Dolphin stopped executing .desktop files and started to open them in default text editor. How to prevent this.

TL;DR tip:

kate ~/.config/kiorc

Change the line:

[Executable scripts]
behaviourOnLaunch=open

to

[Executable scripts]
behaviourOnLaunch=execute

Description:

Workaround/Fix found here.