KDE is a popular desktop environment for personal computers. It offers a variety of features, including a user interface, applications, and libraries. One of KDE’s features is the ability to open files single-click. This makes it easy to access files you want without having to search through them first. Unfortunately, some programs do not work well with this feature. For example, when you open a file in KDE, it will show you the file’s contents in a list on the left side of the screen. However, if you single-click on the file’s name in that list, KDE will open that file without asking you if you want to open it. This can be frustrating because it means that some programs don’t work well with KDE and others do. To fix this problem, you can disable single-click opening of files in KDE by editing your ~/.kde/userconfig/desktop/configuration file. In addition, you can add an entry for “single-click opening only for selected files” to your ~/.kde/userconfig/desktop/configuration file so that only those files are opened when you single-click on them. Finally, you can enable single-click opening of files in KDE by restarting KDE and changing your configuration file accordingly.
The one thing you can’t complain about, however, is how nice and easy KDE’s system settings are. Just open them up via the “start” menu, and find the Keyboard & Mouse icon.
Click on “Mouse” in the left hand menu, and then choose “Double-click to open files and folders – select icons on first click”.
Now you can safely click on icons again!
Why this isn’t the default in KDE when it is in every other operating system, I’ll never know.
