Version: 2.1 (using KDE KDE 3.1) Installed from: Gentoo Packages OS: Linux It would be very helpful if Kate would offer an "Open as (user/root)..." option. For example: People (also administrators) are usually logged in as normal users (Group "users"). Opening a file that this users has no access to doesn't work of course. But it would be nice to have an "Open as root" option so that the user has to type root's password and grands access to the choosen file. What do you think about that idea? Thanks in advance, Christian Hartmann
technically not really possible in that way (not sane), but you can for example use the fish ioslave to connect to your own machine with root rights (if you allow that on your machine for localhost)
kdesu -c "kwrite /etc/somefile" can be typed in a term or in the alt + f2 command line, or even in a .desktop file