Thanks for your bugreport.
The bug here is that policykit does not work with qt I think. There is a
dependency on:
policykit-1-gnome | policykit-1-qt
** Summary changed:
- Software-center run as normal user
+ [kde] Software-center run as normal user
** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu)
** Attachment added: "kde_software-center-user_vs_root.png"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33129381/kde_software-center-user_vs_root.png
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33129382/Dependencies.txt
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Software-center run as normal user
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