extremetech.com article

Thomas Zander zander at planescape.com
Tue Apr 30 11:09:52 BST 2002


On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 10:57:30AM +0200, Ralf Nolden wrote:
> http://www.extremetech.com/print_article/0,3428,a=26115,00.asp
> 
> "Operating as root user for the first time in KDE, you should open the file 
> manager and browse around. Because you are essentially in super-user mode, be 
> very careful not to modify anything. Look but don't touch. This will 
> eliminate a potential KDE glitch that might cause the file manager window to 
> flicker when accessing it from a user account."
> 
> What is he talking about ? Anyone an idea what is going on there that the user 
> should work as root in KDE first before doing anything else on his new system 
> ?
> 

Why didn't you ask the author ?

-- 
Thomas Zander                                            zander at earthling.net
The only thing worse than failure is the fear of trying something new
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