Description of problem: here an example which explain the situation: [root@magaux alain4]# kate /boot/grub/menu.lst Executing Kate as root is not possible. To edit files as root use: SUDO_EDITOR=kate sudoedit <file> [root@magaux alain4]# executing: [root@magaux alain4]# sudoedit /boot/grub/menu.lst opens this file with vim, which is not the desired action sometimes, opening a file as text with kate or kwrite gives a clearer view of this file Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
CC: (none) => marja11Assignee: bugsquad => kde
this is not a bug, this is the wanted behaviour by kde upstream. see https://cgit.kde.org/kate.git/commit/?id=9adcebd3c2e476c8a32e9b455cc99f46b0e12a7e
CC: (none) => mageiaResolution: (none) => WONTFIXStatus: NEW => RESOLVED
(In reply to Nicolas Lécureuil from comment #1) > this is not a bug, this is the wanted behaviour by kde upstream. > > see > https://cgit.kde.org/kate.git/commit/ > ?id=9adcebd3c2e476c8a32e9b455cc99f46b0e12a7e this contradicts the action of the package kde-rootactions-servicemenu, which belongs to the official repos of mageia (and surely of others distribs)
(In reply to peter lawford from comment #0) > Description of problem: > here an example which explain the situation: > > [root@magaux alain4]# kate /boot/grub/menu.lst > Executing Kate as root is not possible. To edit files as root use: > SUDO_EDITOR=kate sudoedit <file> > [root@magaux alain4]# > > executing: [root@magaux alain4]# sudoedit /boot/grub/menu.lst > > opens this file with vim, which is not the desired action > sometimes, opening a file as text with kate or kwrite gives a clearer view > of this file > [rolf@z68x ~]$ SUDO_EDITOR=kate sudoedit /etc/urpmi/skip.list opens the file with kate, allows an edit and a save. [rolf@z68x ~]$ ll /etc/urpmi/skip.list -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 168 May 19 05:29 /etc/urpmi/skip.list
CC: (none) => rolfpedersen
Also see Bug 23054 - since the last "massive" update, kde-rootactions-servicemenu is ineffective
CC: (none) => fri