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
How about a left click.
(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
That is a separate valid issue, the Open in the context menu is redundant, closing this.
*** Bug 404332 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 404432 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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.
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.