Bug 406368

Summary: Root actions for Dolphin
Product: [Applications] dolphin Reporter: yamiyukisenpai
Component: generalAssignee: Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DOWNSTREAM    
Severity: wishlist CC: elvis.angelaccio, nate
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 18.12.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
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Description yamiyukisenpai 2019-04-09 15:44:03 UTC 
SUMMARY
One of the things people might need to do is formatting their hard drive.  Since EXT4 will set the ownership of the formatted drive to root:root, the user will need root access to do anything to the drive, such as adding new folders.

As far as I can tell, the only way to do this is through CLI, and most users aren't used to that.

PolicyKit should be able to solve that, right?

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Kubuntu 19.04
KDE Plasma Version: 5.15.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.56.0
Qt Version: 5.12.2
Kernel Version: 5.0.0-8-generic
OS Type: 64-bit
Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-6500 CPU @ 3.20GHz
Memory: 15.6 GiB of RAM
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2019-04-09 16:51:36 UTC 
This would be a bug with the formatting tool and should be fixed there. Residual needs to edit root files in Dolphin will be addressed with PolicyKit integration, which really is in progress and coming soon! :)