hein added a comment.
It's worth noting that this patch as-is also breaks the Dashboard UI ("All
Applications" no longer shows content), so this revert wasn't just about
implementation details but also actively broke upstream.
I'm writing an alternative patch now.
REPOSITORY
R119 Plasma Desktop
REVISION DETAIL
https://phabricator.kde.org/D22762
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