On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 22:58 -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > David Clymer wrote: > > On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 18:01 -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > > > >> According to http://kudos.berlios.de/kf/kisimlar/tipsntrix.html#rootedit > >> , In Ubuntu one can edit the text files as root using the "Edit as Root" > >> option. But I could not find this option in Debian unstable KDE 3.5.2 . > >> How can I achieve this behavior in Debian as well? > >> > > > > kdesu kate <name of file> from the command line should work. > But that is from command line. I was looking for something that works > from say konqueror. > > However, if > > you are looking for a context menu option, you may have to add that > > yourself. I'm not a KDE user, so I forget how to do this offhand. If you > > right click on the file you are attempting to edit, I'm guessing you'll > > see an "open with" option that may allow you to specify a command to use > > to open that type of file. If you specify 'kdesu kate %f' it might work. > > > This is of no use because, let's say I am editing a file called file.txt > which is associated with, say, gvim. I want to use root permissions on > *.txt only when necessary. If I use your method, then kdesu will be > invoked with root permission even when it is not necessary. > > For example to edit /etc/file.txt , I probably want to use root > permission. But to edit ~/file.txt I do not need root permissions. I can > edit as a normal user itself.
I think you've got the wrong idea. I'm certain that it is possible in KDE for a file context menu to contain multiple programs that can optionally be used to open the file. However, only one is the default. What I'm suggesting isn't an exclusive association, but an additional one. Look into how to set up/modify file associations, and I think you will find you can use that to solve your problem. -davidc -- gpg-key: http://www.zettazebra.com/files/key.gpg
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