https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=179678
--- Comment #44 from Bo Weaver <b...@boweaver.com> --- (In reply to Bo Weaver from comment #41) > (In reply to Nate Graham from comment #39) > > Thanks for working with me and digging deep here. In the end, this was all > > just a big misunderstanding, not some kind of conspiracy. :) > > > > Bugs for Dolphin and Kate: > > - https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387974 > > - https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387973 > > > > Are there any other apps that gained PolKit support but stopped launching > > when you're logged in as the root user? I don't know if you saw my last email but after the last round of updates now Konqueror fails to work when logged in under root. Question is Krusader next to stop working??? Everything I have tested using a normal account and modifying files or changing configurations the KIO and policy-kit are working fine. You get a proper password box before the file is saved. When logged in under the root account more is dying we are going in the wrong direction. Again killing access to Kate and other tools accomplishes nothing since other applications that preform the same task work fine and will continue to work since they are not your tools and you can't modify their code. Kate may not work but Leafpad, Nano, Vi, and Emacs just to name a few work fine. Wayland was blamed for part of this and I was told Wayland is planning on killing GUI logins under the root account. I could find anything on this in the Wayland forums. You said this is not some kind of conspiracy but killing Konqueror in the last round of updates does make it appear that something is going on that isn't right. I sill haven't gotten an answer to why Gmone, MATE, and other DEs aren't following this path it is only KDE killing root. Why? Especially when the biggest disto that uses you desktop by default fixes your builtin bug. If I am talking to the wind here please just tell me to just f_ck off and die and this 20 year user of your desktop will sadly change to MATE. I need to know something this killing applications without reason is screwing with the me making a living. Its no fun to sit down ready to work and find out that the tools you used yesterday no longer work because you updated the system. This is especially maddening when you work in security and you know for a fact this all fixes nothing and secures nothing within the DE or the OS. It just makes the DE useless for some use cases. > > I just tried some more applications. All "custom" applications for Kali > appear to be working fine. The PIM interface did load. I don't use it > under root so it wasn't fully configured but did properly go into the set > up. The only applications I have found that don't work is Dolphin, Kate and > Kwrite. From the command line these all fail with the can't run under root > error. From the desktop when the icon is clicked they just fail no errors. > This is only happening when logged in the desktop as root. When I am in a > normal user account Kate runs and when saving a system file I get a proper > password prompt. This also happens when copying a file to a system > directory. > > Please don't get me wrong guys this is the "right way" for normal users the > root account locked out and a password protected way to change files from a > user account. > > I just really miss Kate for me it is the finest text editor ever made. > > Thanks for your all's help getting this fixed up -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
