https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=379149
--- Comment #23 from Toni Asensi Esteve <toni.ase...@kdemail.net> ---
> I can't understand that all.
> Why that are no solution implemented for that all?
Martin Gräßlin wrote that executing malware while executing a X11 application
as root... is extremely insecure (this shouldn't be a surprise [^1]) and pushed
a new feature to mainstream KDE that removed the ability of users to run
Dolphin or Kwrite or Kate text editors as root, though [^1].
[^1]: Even Martin Gräßlin wrote that "if you run an application which is
malicious you are already owned".
Fortunately, KDE ended up seeing use cases where there was no other option than
using graphical programs (like Kate) as the root user:
- [allow Kate and Dolphin to be run with the root user account
again](https://pointieststick.wordpress.com/2018/06/02/this-week-in-usability-productivity-part-21/).
- [Dolphin](https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387974) and
[Kate](https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387973) can once again be launched
when logged in as the root user, and [and Dolphin displays a
warning](https://phabricator.kde.org/D12732).
And also fortunately... Krusader provides some ways, for example we can try
executing
$(kde4-config --path libexec)kdesu -c KDE_FULL_SESSION=true krusader
and later we can press F4 to edit files.
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