I'm customising the KDE desktop environment for our corporate desktop (based on Kubuntu 16.04), and I've found what I hope is not a bug -
In short, all I want to do is add a quicklaunch widget to the panel, then populate it with some application shortcuts via the plasma scripting interface.

I have code that I believe should work:

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//new panel for testing purposes
var panel = new Panel
var quicklaunch = panel.addWidget("org.kde.plasma.quicklaunch"); 
var qlurls = ["file:///usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop",
          "file:///usr/share/applications/org.kde.dolphin.desktop"
         ];
quicklaunch.currentConfigGroup = ["General"];
quicklaunch.writeConfig("launcherUrls", qlurls);
//confirm it's written correctly
print(quicklaunch.readConfig("launcherUrls"));
//flailing for ideas now?!?
quicklaunch.reloadConfig()

You can test it by starting the scripting console in a KDE session, and copying and pasting:

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qdbus org.kde.plasmashell /PlasmaShell showInteractiveConsole

This correctly adds a new panel, a quicklaunch widget, and applies all the same settings that were applied when I interrogated a manually created quicklaunch, but - it doesn't display any of the application shortcuts, just a rocket icon.

What am I doing wrong?

Confirmed my code works on kde neon, it's a bug in the (k)ubuntu plasma packages.