running programs as root in KDE

[Tim]

On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 15:26 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> Ok, I'll bite. What is kdesu and why does it have to run in this
> context? Sounds screwy to me.

A "su" function for "kde"...  As to why is something special needed,
rather than just "su -" in a terminal, the the program name, as other
desktops do?  I don't know, maybe there's something special about KDE
not allowing GUI operations as root.

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