Okular is doing the right thing. NOT.

Okular is doing the right thing. NOT.

You're wrong. Free software is about you being able to scratch your own itches if required, not about having all your itches proactively scratched for you by others.

Free software authors (or distributors) are under no obligation whatsoever to cater to the wishes of »as many users as possible«. If they don't, they may have to accept the fact that nobody but themselves may be interested in their output, but if they're cool with that then it is totally their option. The whole point of free software is that you are (or anyone is) free to change a free program to suit different preferences than those of its original author, and to pass the changed program on to others.

So if the Debian KDE people won't uncheck that box for you, then you will unfortunately have to do it yourself, or else find another distribution that comes with it unchecked. You could even create your own Debian derivative that is 100% identical to Debian in every respect except that it has that box unchecked, and distribute that for the benefit of all the other users who aren't prepared to bear the cost of figuring out how to uncheck the box themselves. This is what free software is about, not getting everything perfect for everybody out of the box, which is obviously impossible.