Re: WTF "Executing Dolphin with kdesu is not possible due to unfixable security vulnerabilities"

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On Fri, 2021-08-27 at 08:57 -0700, Emmett Culley wrote:
> I updated my workstation (fedora 34) this morning and when I tried to
> run dolphin as root I saw the above message.
> 
> What are the KDE developers thinking?  I am a developer (30 years) and
> am often needing to alter something on my workstation as root.  What
> possible reason would the dophin devloper have to prevent me from doing
> that?
> 
> It is not as if a new KDE user might accidentally enable that
> functionality.  Who the heck (putting it extremely mildly) are they
> trying to protect?
> 
> I used to use Konqueror until this same thing happened.  Konqueror had
> advantages, like profiles, that made it hard to give up, but I did give
> it up because I needed occasional root access more than I needed
> profiles.  Why should I have to change my ways because some developers
> have a nanny complex.

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