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plasma-welcome crashing when discover and plasma-welcome-fedora are not present #2624

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@renner0e

Describe the bug

Upstream bug:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=523540

plasma-welcome crashes when started
6.7.3

kf.kcmutils: Trying to use rootObject before initialization is completed, whilst using setInitializationDelayed. Forcing completion
KCrash: Application 'plasma-welcome' crashing... crashRecursionCounter = 2
zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped)  plasma-welcome

When you install plasma-welcome-fedora (it brings in fedora-flathub-remote fedora-third-party fedora-workstation-repositories) the creash doesn't happen anymore

What did you expect to happen?

plasma-welcome starts without the fedora branded pages

Output of rpm-ostree status

● Booted image: containers-storage:localhost/aurora:stable
Digest: sha256:a30ce7ed691813c819bba01a0f8e06d5440e1330544d85f47ca9ff90a7ce5f60 (amd64)
Version: 44.20260724.1 (2026-07-24T12:04:34Z)
/usr overlay: transient, read/write

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Extra information or context

funnily enough, running plasma-welcome --live-environment without fedora branding present works!

How to reproduce on kinoite:

Yes, removing discover here is actually the relevant part that breaks it!

sudo bootc usr-overlay
sudo dnf -y remove plasma-welcome-fedora
sudo rm /usr/share/applications/org.kde.discover.desktop

If you touch /usr/share/applications/org.kde.discover.desktop, it won't crash!

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