When wayland spreads it looks like no more running gui's as root.

[René J.V. Bertin]

On Tuesday April 18 2017 00:07:00 John wrote:

>  https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/524150-Executing-Dolphin-as-root-is-not-possible
> 
> I was too annoyed to read all of it. The title sums it up.

If the title sums it up then it must be simple enough to get around it - just patch out Dolphin's check for running as root. Or put pressure on your distro maintainers to do that.

R.