Bug 492706

Summary: In Act as Administrator mode, Dolphin restricts creating or moving files into a directory based on its write permissions
Product: [Applications] dolphin Reporter: Liz Lee <waynejwoww>
Component: generalAssignee: Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: normal CC: goodaqua, john.kizer, kfm-devel, solomoncyj
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 25.08.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Fedora RPMs   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: act as administrator button

Description Liz Lee 2024-09-06 10:19:41 UTC 
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. activate the "act as administrator" feature.
2. try to create a new file or subfolder within a folder the current "normal" user has no writing rights (e.g. "/" ) either by clicking a "create new" button in a toolbar or by clicking the right mouse button and using the context menu.
3. try to copy a file IN such folder via ctrl+c or clicking "paste" in the right click context menu.

OBSERVED RESULT
- "create new" toolbar button and mouse right click menu entry (context menu entry) are greyed out and not clickable.
- when i try to create a new folder with ctrl+shift+n (which is imho the default keyboard shortcut for creating new folders) it does not work also, but an orange banner below the location bar in dolphin appears, reading: "Cannot create new folder: You do not have permission to create items in this folder."
- copying IN the folder does NOT work too. when trying via ctrl+v, the same orange banner appears. the "paste" entry in the right click context menu does not show up.
- note that deleting, renaming and duplicating (!) files within the folder DOES indeed work. (on a side note: there is no "move to trash" option available but only the "hard"-delete.)

EXPECTED RESULT
creating new files and folders and copying files should be possible. (also "move to trash" should be an option instead of only the "hard"-delete option.)

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Fedora Linux 40
KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.5.0
Qt Version: 6.7.2
Kernel Version: 6.10.7-200.fc40.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Comment 1 reports_go_brrr 2024-09-12 18:45:04 UTC 
Can't reproduce bug under Arch.

Operating System: Arch Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.5.0
Qt Version: 6.7.2
Kernel Version: 6.10.7-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Comment 2 Liz Lee 2024-09-20 14:02:57 UTC 
problem still exists after update:

Operating System: Fedora Linux 40
KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.6.0
Qt Version: 6.7.2
Kernel Version: 6.10.10-200.fc40.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Comment 3 David Edmundson 2024-10-25 16:11:44 UTC 
Starting dolphin as root is bad practice and unsupported. 
For root operations please use kio-admin
Comment 4 Liz Lee 2024-10-25 18:41:49 UTC 
(In reply to David Edmundson from comment #3)
> Starting dolphin as root is bad practice and unsupported. 
> For root operations please use kio-admin

not at any point did i talk about "starting dolphin as root".

i am talking about the "act as administrator" feature. this does not equal to _starting_ dolphin as root.

if it were unsopported, why would the feature be implemented in the first place?

please note my screenshot that proves that such feature does indeed exist.
Comment 5 Liz Lee 2024-10-25 18:42:12 UTC 
Created attachment 175235 [details]
act as administrator button
Comment 6 Liz Lee 2024-11-04 09:54:28 UTC 
problem still existis on Fedora 41:

Operating System: Fedora Linux 41
KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.7.0
Qt Version: 6.8.0
Kernel Version: 6.11.5-300.fc41.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland

Dolphin Version: 24.08.2
Comment 7 Liz Lee 2024-11-11 09:16:48 UTC 
problem still exists in dolphin 24.08.3

Operating System: Fedora Linux 41
KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.8.0
Qt Version: 6.8.0
Kernel Version: 6.11.6-300.fc41.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Comment 8 John Kizer 2024-12-13 05:35:35 UTC 
*** Bug 496838 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 Liz Lee 2024-12-24 10:45:17 UTC 
bug still existing on dolphin 24.12.0

Operating System: Fedora Linux 41
KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.9.0
Qt Version: 6.8.1
Kernel Version: 6.12.5-200.fc41.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Comment 10 Liz Lee 2025-08-20 08:43:48 UTC 
bug still exists in dolphin 25.08.0

why does nobody care about this imho very obvious bug?