https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=179678
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--- Comment #20 from shevegen <sheve...@gmail.com> ---
This is terrible news.
I used to complain about the Gnome devs treating users as being stupid, but now
this has leaked into KDE.
Just now I write this on my laptop where I run KDE Plasma.
I broke ncurses so nano does not work, so I need an editor.
I was thinking "hey, I can use kate". Ok installing kate worked.
Then I try to open it and kate REFUSES to obey, boring me with an
extremely irrelevant message aka
"Executing Kate as root is not possible. To edit files as root use:
SUDO_EDITOR=kate sudoedit <file>"
Now this is interesting.
Firstly, I have to say that I tried the above AND IT DOES NOT WORK,
so great job by those KDE devs who changed behaviour and did not
provide a work around.
Yes, I know a "work around" - I can change permission as superuser
anyway, edit it with kate, then change the permission again. I can
also use other editors too. I have tons of workaround BUT THE ISSUE
IS THAT SOME RANDOM KDE DEV SIMPLY CRIPPLED KATE HERE.
So firstly, please fire that dude. Second, please stop dumbing down
KDE everywhere. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the superuser
account. I am aware that you transitioned into a "we work for average
joe - and for red hat" but you used to be cool in the past, so what
happened with KDE?
There is some propaganda here:
https://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2017/02/editing-files-as-root/
None of this applies or is relevant but the problem is that some random
dude dictated onto everyone else. BAD decision.
This Martin dude does not run software on MY machine. Why can he decide
how I should run it?
I can probably find the faulty code and remove it but that means I have
to invest time... which Martin doesn't pay me for.
I have to find out if he works for Red Hat, then this explains why he
crippled kate. It's not a big deal anyway since other editors will work
fine or I can find thousand other ways to modify text files, including
via scripts - but seriously KDE people, what happened to you? Did
Microsoft buy you in? KDE Plasma looks like a Win10 clone.
You used to be cool.
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