right clicking on an icon in kfm generates a menu which allows you to
select open-with so you can specify the program you want the file to be
opened by. If you select the browser from this menu you are given a list of
all applications kde knows about. You can select a specific program by
either: 1. double clicking the icon/name for the program or 2. single
clicking the icon then clicking ok.

The second method will not run any program.
not even a little bit.
its actually pretty funny.
if you doubleclick the icon/name of the program it works perfectly.

this is probably not redhat's fault (almost definitely) but I figured it
would be useful for y'all to know about this b/c it will probably affect
someone.