Bug 404290

Summary:	Add "run <thing>" menu item to KFileItemActions::addOpenWithActionsTo() for desktop files and executables
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-kio	Reporter:	ja.krukowski
Component:	general	Assignee:	KIO Bugs <kio-bugs-null>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	kde, kdelibs-bugs-null, leviatan1, misc.3578k, moschlegbz, nate, plasma-bugs-null
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Neon
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description ja.krukowski 2019-02-13 14:03:02 UTC

https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=289&t=157114

After the update of kde plasma from 5.14.5 to 5.15.0 and kde framework from 5.54 to 5.55, I can not open the application by clicking on it with the right mouse button. There is no "open" item in the menu. It is only "open with: Kate" and "open with". It releated to bug https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=404105, after that dosen't work i'm used this method to open dolphin, shortcut to virtual machine

Probably this broken that functionality:

--> Plasma Desktop [Folder View] make file context menu consistent with Dolphin's.
-----> https://cgit.kde.org/plasma-desktop.git ... a085f27eb2
-----> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=401652
-----> https://phabricator.kde.org/D17393


Operating System: KDE neon 5.14
KDE Plasma Version: 5.15.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.55.0
Qt Version: 5.12.0
Kernel Version: 4.15.0-45-generic
OS Type: 64-bit

Comment 1 Kai Uwe Broulik 2019-02-13 14:03:40 UTC

How about a left click.

Comment 2 ja.krukowski 2019-02-13 14:40:33 UTC

(In reply to Kai Uwe Broulik from comment #1)
> How about a left click.

Left clik dosen't work because of this bug: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=404105

Comment 3 Kai Uwe Broulik 2019-02-13 15:03:21 UTC

That is a separate valid issue, the Open in the context menu is redundant, closing this.

Comment 4 Kai Uwe Broulik 2019-02-14 10:17:04 UTC

*** Bug 404332 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Rog131 2019-02-16 11:03:01 UTC

*** Bug 404432 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Nate Graham 2019-02-16 23:20:42 UTC

What we could probably do is add a "Run <thing>" menu item at the top of the menu if it's a desktop file or an executable. Thanks to https://cgit.kde.org/plasma-desktop.git/commit/?id=d75a37b58992fe10718a1bee08cab9a085f27eb2, we can now do this in only one place in KIO, and Dolphin and Folder view will both get it automatically.

Comment 7 M. Schlegel 2025-05-15 18:24:25 UTC

I was just posting about this on another board.  I have a slowish Dell laptop (Dell Inspiron 7559, Skylake cpu) and it's nearly impossible to get the "double click" right for my "link to application" icon to run Firefox.  I have multiple icons for Firefox so I can run multiple customized profiles. My current workaround is I made links from ~/.local/share/applications/ to my desktop files in ~/Desktop and I use krunner to launch them, thus avoiding the clicking issue.  My fast laptop (AMD Ryzen 4800H) which is AMD GPU based doesn't have the double click problem. I guess the problem is the other laptop is slow or the Intel IGP i915 has something to do with it.

I'd also like to suggest adding a "Run..." item to all desktop "Link to Application" icon's right hand mouse menu, I suspect that should only exist in the menu if the icon's "Permissions" tab had the "Allow executing file as program" checkbox checked.