On Tuesday, 22 August 2017 11:46:02 AM AEST Syam Krishnan wrote:
On 08/17/2017 04:35 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Hi,
since both KDE upstream and the Fedora KDE SIG refuse to fix the regression
that Dolphin, KWrite, and Kate can no longer be run as root,
I have decided to write a small metapackage that automatically applies the binary patch to fix the issue.
Hear hear! Thank you.
Fedora KDE-SIG (and upstream) should really rethink on this stupid decision.
I've kinda stayed out of this debate, but when looking at the details, I also cannot find any logical reason to the change as it exists in the upstream source.
It simply doesn't make sense to exit silently when run as root.
I wouldn't quite call it 'stupid' - but I would call it short sighted / problematic.
A better solution would be to pop up a dialog stating "This is being run as root and could be dangerous".