https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=435574
--- Comment #13 from lnx...@westlot.net --- (In reply to Nate Graham from comment #12) > With my "Usability & Productivity" hat on, I must point out that this is > what can happen when we annoy the users "for their own good" in a free > system. I don't care to be annoyed "for my own good", I prefer to be educated to the issues and allowed to continue if I so desire. > They can always just get the mostly-less-annoying-but-theotetically-dangerous > behavior back again. We can say, "well, not my responsibility then" but in > that case we're still failing at our ultimate goal of protecting these users > from broken systems post-upgrade. Freedom and customization is what GNU/Linux and, one would hope, KDE/Plasma is all about; or at least it used to be. > The same thing happened when we prohibited running Dolphin with sudo: people > who wanted to do it got annoyed and just used Thunar or Nemo instead, easily > bypassing our desire to protect them, and driving them away from our > software. :( I prefer MC in the console or Krusader, so never noticed the inability to run Dolphin with sudo. If I had, I most certainly would've filed a bug report. I am not a child that need to be protected from my own actions. I've was using Linux back when KDE was in it's infancy and needed to be compiled from source to use, and have more than once inadvertently broken it beyond repair (deleted the root partition type of broken). I'm well aware of what my actions can do to my system and would never blame the software for something that is clearly my own fault. Now that I understand the reasoning behind restarting with system updates, I'll be more apt to restart at days end, but the double restart issue I mentioned above may be something to look into. I prefer to suspend my system at the end of the day because not everything gets restarted and/or put back in it's previous state on a restart so it takes me a few minutes after a restart to get back to a productive state. I apologize for this long rant, but your "for their own good" and "bypassing our desire to protect them" statements triggered me. I use Linux and KDE because it offers me the freedom to use my computer the way I want, and I'm sure a great many users feel the same. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
