I've noticed and really appreciate the recent polkit support for running Kate without root permissions to open a root owned file and be prompted for password to save changes, this is great! I have opened a file from /var/log/libvirt/qemu/vmname.log that Kate refused to read due to not having read permissions, whereas /etc/default/grub I guess does. Could it be possible to also support this usecase like writing a file as root is now supported? Ideally, I could just browse to the location and select the file in Dolphin as I do now, then Kate will be able to open it with a polkit password prompt to continue. I am presently using the following command to workaround this(-n flag avoids issues caused by having an existing Kate window open, for editing grub config file and current support, using the same Kate window wasn't an issue like it is with sudoedit): EDITOR="kate -n" sudoedit /path/to/file.log
Dear user, this wish list item is now closed, as it wasn't touched in the last year and no contributor stepped up to implement it. The Kate/KTextEditor team is small and we can just try to keep up with fixing bugs. Therefore wishes that show no activity for a years or more will be closed from now on to keep at least a bit overview about 'current' wishs of the users. If you want your feature to be implemented, please step up to provide some patch for it. If you think it is really needed, you can reopen your request, but keep in mind, if no new good arguments are made and no people get attracted to help out to implement it, it will expire in a year again. We have a nice website https://kate-editor.org that provides all the information needed to contribute, please make use of it. Patches can be handed in via https://phabricator.kde.org/differential/ Greetings Christoph Cullmann