MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for kate-root [2]: Currenty broken. But also completely unneeded.
Repo's kate fully supports prompting the user for root write access, and also can open files via the admin:// protocol (if extra/kio-admin package is installed). [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/kate-root/
