https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=408512
--- Comment #8 from Jonathan Wakely <zi...@kayari.org> --- Let me try and explain this differently. My original report said: EXPECTED RESULT Prompt for root password, so printers can be detected. That's what I still think should happen. If the user happens to have admin privs due to distro settings, or the specific config on a specific machine, or because the user is root, then there's no need to prompt. Great, it Just Works. But it seems very silly, and unsafe, to say that the solution to "this operation needs elevated privs" is that all distros should give elevated privs to normal users, all the time (or that users should only use less secure distros). If an operation needs elevated privs, ask for them. That's what KAuth is for: https://api.kde.org/frameworks/kauth/html/index.html (In reply to Nate Graham from comment #6) > your options are to go bug your distro, or use a different distro. As a distro maintainer, I consider this is an irresponsible and even dangerous statement. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
