Bug 254431

Summary:	System Settings requires double-click on icons (despite mouse pref for single-clicks)
Product:	[Applications] systemsettings	Reporter:	Richard Neill <kde>
Component:	general	Assignee:	System Settings Bugs <sourtooth+ssbugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	hr.denzler
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Mandriva RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Richard Neill 2010-10-17 06:35:07 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.5.0) 
OS:                Linux

I have KDE set up (and working) for single-clicks everywhere (and have confirmed this in Dolphin & Konqueror).

However, the system-settings application requires every icon to be double-clicked. This shouldn't be necessary. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Click an icon within the system-settings application. 
Nothing happens (except for highlighting the icon).
One must double-click to get a reaction. 


Expected Results:  
Single-clicks should work normally. (Double-clicking is very, very counter-intuitive on *nix - and it's not even as though there is anything one could *do* with the control-center icons, such as dragging them, or editing them).

Comment 1 Ben Cooksley 2010-10-17 08:05:19 UTC

Are you using the Classic or Icons view? Both behave correctly here, and I use single click my self. 

Are you able to reproduce under a new user?
I suspect corrupt configuration or distribution patches.

Comment 2 Richard Neill 2010-10-17 15:46:28 UTC

You're right - if I use the xguest account, and then start system-settings, and then configure the mouse to single-click, it now works correctly. 

This machine is about 4 years old, and has maintained the same user account for all that time. So probably this bug is to do with the kde3 -> kde4 migration.

(However, I can't blame old profile settings for everything: eg in either account, marble crashes instantly on launch).

How is it possible to get a corrupt configuration of a boolean value? Even if I toggle the mouse from single->double->single, clicking apply each time, I can't seem to reset the config to the correct one. Is there another workaround besides deleting my entire .kde4 directory?

Comment 3 Hans-Rudi Denzler 2010-10-18 13:33:59 UTC

Open .kde4/share/config/ in Dolphin sorting order by Date. Change your value. Compare the modified files (*) with kdiff3 before/after or correct config files.
You also may rename (*) to something like *~ and logout/login. If you can fix it, you don't need the backup files (*~) anymore.

Comment 4 Ben Cooksley 2010-11-26 18:50:04 UTC

This is caused by corrupt configs.