While I might not phrase my comment as loneanon has, he is correct on every point. In previous versions of (k)ubuntu users could edit files as root using Kate. Making that no longer possible is taking away functionality that many of us were used to. I have yet to see any justification for this action, just terse and opaque judgments like "Invalid" and "not a bug". How about a little more philosophical insight into why the developers think this capability is not necessary to include?
If you bought a new car and found that in place of the ignition switch, there was a hand crank, would you think it was a bug? How would you feel if you complained to the dealer and merely got the response that the car still works without it? In my case, I like using Kate so much that I created an alias in .bashrc so that I can edit root owned scripts. It is: alias sudokate='SUDO_EDITOR=kate sudoedit' It's a little clunky in that, when executing "sudokate myfile.txt", Kate makes a copy of myfile.txt with a temporary file name and then copies over the original file when the changes are saved. Since Linux is supposed to be about choices, why must we go to such lengths just to maintain (an approximation of) the functionality we already had? This is the core question that was asked a year and a half ago when this bug was created. We're still waiting for an answer. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1762864 Title: kate cannot run as root To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kate/+bug/1762864/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
