On Sun, 10 Mar 2024 02:36:22 +0100, Marcell Meszaros <marcell.meszaros@runbox.eu> wrote:
Repo's kate fully supports prompting the user for root write access, and also can open files via the admin:// protocol (if extra/kio-admin package is installed).
Non-root Kate can do everything a root Kate would be able to do. If you opened a file with read-only access, upon saving, it will prompt you for root credentials.
For me not. Maybe if used within a full-fledged KDE environment. I use kate as a standalone editor without using a KDE environment, nor a gnome environment, but a simple window manager without any desktop envitronment. For me it simpky refuses to save with the message
The document could not be saved, as it was not possible to write <filename>. Check that you have write access to this file or that enough disk space is available.
If you want to open something for which your user doesn't have read access, you need to install the 'kio-admin' package from the repo. And then open that directory or file with the admin:// protocol.
E.g., the following directory is only accessible (readable/traversable) by root:
/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/
Open it by entering the following path in Kate's Open File dialog:
admin:///etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/
Wow. That is much manual overhead. I usually work at the terminal and type `kate <filename>`. So, still, kate does _not_ allow to be a editor for simple root usage, like `gedit` allows, like `medit` allows, like `mcedit` allows. I still see valid use cases for this package and I continue to provide it.