On 8/27/21 9:27 AM, Sérgio Basto wrote:
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.
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/thread/FKW7ADSIWOSDO3UHWFKOXOJX2MGHSKWH/
Thanks Sergio and thank you Kevin Kofler. Kevin "fixed" konqueror the same way when that debacle first happened.
However, none of that mitigates KDE developers taking it upon themselves to tell me how to do my work.
Sure, make it difficult to run anything as root, but also make it possible for informed users to alter that configuration.
kdesu seemed like enough of a requirement, as it required a user to get educated while jumping thorough some hoops.
Now I have to patch those apps to use them how I want to use them. Thanks again Kevin.
Emmett
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