https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387974
--- Comment #9 from David <david.cortes.riv...@gmail.com> --- (In reply to Andrius Štikonas from comment #8) > Why would we allow running dolphin as root. We are trying to prevent user > from even starting a single GUI application running as root. And here the > suggestion is to use the whole session as root. That's much worse security > wise than single GUI app. As for why: for example, when you need to modify permissions of files and folders, copy/delete files in certain directories, edit system stuff, among others. By restricting users to launch Dolphin as root, you are not making people more secure. You are just annoying people by making their workflow less convenient and forcing them to use a different application to do the job, such as Nautilus or Pluma. Consider that one of the reasons why some people use KDE and its apps in the first place is because they are sick from other DE's attitude of thinking they know better than their users how they should do stuff. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
