krusader!

[kubicle]

More news - this appears to be a tempoprary glitch -
https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2017/...support_in_KIO

It should be (and it has been discussed on various threads here [ mainly in this one: https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...anager-problem ]...as well as the "icons not showing" and "kde-init errors" including the fixes for these).

The ultimate goal (of the KDE devs) is to add polkit support for dolphin (and kate) through kio, which would eliminate the need to run these gui apps as root (instead, the apps will run as the user and ask for additional privileges when attempting to perform certain tasks...like deleting or editing a file that the user doesn't have access to).

The disabling of root mode in both dolphin and kate in kde applications 17.04 release (not kubuntu 17.04) were done deliberately in advance of this.

You can use krusader as a replacement for dolphin until the polkit support is available if you wish (as it still continues to function as root).

I'd recommend keeping this thread about krusader, and directing more general discussion into the other thread.