[KDE] A menu entry does not start the application complaining about permission problem

 I lately created a menu entry for an application not providing one on its own. As I manage some of my stuff in Subversion, I placed a symlink in ~/.local/share/applications pointing to the file in my local checkout of my repository. Trying to start it, KDE complains about permission problems. It turns out that "it" is not able to handle symlinks properly.