[DESKTOP] Nanny

[billie0w]

Why does Kubuntu want to be a nanny? In the past I could run Dolphin or Kate as root. Didn't need to often but once in a while it was useful. Yes, I know it can be dangerous and cause harm to my system. No, I don't need a nanny to tell me that. Twenty-two years ago I jumped ship on Windows because of the constant nanny nagging. I don't need it now.

[claydoh]

A tired, old, topic with unfortunately no new answers yet.

BUT:
You can.

You just haven't found out how yet. Search for it here, you might find it
Or use Krusader, or another file manager. There are dozens of them.

And it is a KDE issue, not specific to Kubuntu.
They are implementing giving sudo privileges to dolphin without physically needing to run it as root. Editing files is already done, for quite a while now. Open /etc/fstab or whatever in Kate. Edit it, Save. Enter password. Done
Creating/deleting files is nearly ready.

[kc1di]

you can run dolphin as root with this rather lengthy command

pkexec env DISPLAY=$DISPLAY XAUTHORITY=$XAUTHORITY KDE_SESSION_VERSION=5 KDE_FULL_SESSION=true dolphin

I added it to my menu so have both instances available.
you can use the same command with kate by changing the last part to true kate

[Beerislife]

I installed Krusader a long time ago to get around that Dolphin limitation...

[Snowhog]

I just don't worry about it. Need things done outside of my /home directory? Open a konsole and sudo -i and provide my pwd, and root's your uncle.