[kubuntu-users] Kubuntu is excellent! 1 of may questions

Christoph Wiesen chris at deadhand.com
Sun Mar 20 01:07:26 UTC 2005


On Saturday 19 March 2005 16:22, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 10:28:05PM -0500, Gunny Wallen wrote:
> > Where is the file browser super usermode?
> > I kinda miss that.
>
> I removed it because I was not sure of the security issues.  Does
> Gnome have a similar option in its menus?  I'm happy to be persuaded
> into putting back super user Konqueror if it's sane.  Super user
> Konsole is a definate no, anyone who can use a command line can learn
> sudo.
>
> Jonathan Riddell

Hello,

I haven't worked on a vanilla kubuntu-desktop installation for more than a few 
minutes (I use a pre- kubuntu-default-settings user), but when I think about 
it super-user konqueror maybe shouldn't be removed. For a normal user this 
seems to be the only way to do administration tasks in a comfortable gui 
environment - where he doesn't have to enter "cryptic commands" just to move 
a (system) file, change a setting (e.g. open and edit a config file).
As long as the kubuntu philosophy doesn't include something like "users 
shouldn't do administrations", which would be bad because I think any 
competent user should be able to be their own admin, super-user konqui should 
probably be back.

Christoph Wiesen




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