[kde-linux] Dolphin opening a text file as root with Kwrite.

[Dale]

chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:
> Dale ha scritto:
>    
>> chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:
>>      
>>> Dale ha scritto:
>>>
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>>>> chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:
>>>>
>>>>          
>>>>> On Thursday 18 February 2010 10:30:51 Dale wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>            
>>>>>> I have Dolphin, the replacement for Konqueror, set up to run as root.
>>>>>> When I go to the "K menu" and select Dolphin, it asks for the root
>>>>>> password and I enter it in.  Dolphin opens fine, no problems.  The
>>>>>> problem starts when I go somewhere that requires root privileges.  If
>>>>>> I try to enter the /root directory, I get this error at the bottom of
>>>>>> Dolphin:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "Can not start process.  Can not talk to Klauncher.  The name
>>>>>> org.kde.klauncher was not provided by any service files."
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>              
>>>>> It's intended behaviour.  Apparently running a gui for text-editing has some
>>>>> possible security issues - don't ask me for details, I don't know them - so
>>>>> it's discouraged.  I'm sure there will be ways of side-stepping this, but
>>>>> since I don't know whether I'd then be opening a can of worms I've accepted
>>>>> that and come up with work-arounds.
>>>>>
>>>>> If I know the path of the file to edit,  I open a root konsole and type
>>>>> 'kwrite path/to/file'.  If I don't, I start dolphin in a root konsole - which
>>>>> doesn't bring that error message.  Either way, I accept that there could be
>>>>> some vulnerability, so I close the session as soon as I have finished.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anne
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>            
>>>> I see that it could be a security concern but it is done locally, not
>>>> over some remote connection or something, and I have to edit config
>>>> files as root a lot anyway.  Basically, I'm going to have to edit them
>>>> as root regardless of what I use to do it.  I prefer it to be something
>>>> that can be done easily so I chose to do it the same way I always have
>>>> done it.
>>>>
>>>> It sounds like KDE is getting a little to much like windoze to me.
>>>> Maybe it is time for me to start looking for a different GUI.  After
>>>> all, if I can't keep my system up to date, running Kwrite as root is
>>>> going to be the least of my problems.  This just seems to add to issues
>>>> I already have with KDE.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> usually I use konqueror3 for this, it works well with kwrite3
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>> Are you talking about Konqueror from KDE 3 or is there some other
>> Konqueror package floating around?
>>      
> Yes konqueror from kde3
>
>    
>> I'm trying to get rid of KDE 3 stuff
>> so that option won't be available for much longer.  Either this will be
>> doable with KDE 4 or some other GUI.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :-)
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> I don't know if konqueror from kde3 needs other kde3 stuff, kde says
> that kde3 software runs on kd4 natively, but it is the best file manager
> I meet until now, better than dolphin and than konqueror4, and even
> isn't supported for file management is enough developed I think.
>
> Pier :-)
>
>    


I suspect it will want kdelibs for KDE 3 tho.  I may be wrong on that.  
Anything is possible I guess.

If I can run Konqueror in KDE 4, that will solve a pretty good size 
problem for me.  I'll try to test that next time I am in KDE 4.

Dale

:-)  :-)