Description of problem: System Settings (KDE) does not have mechanism to enter administrative mode to change system settings, e.g. cannot modify Login Manager (KDM). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kdebase-4.0.1-3.fc9.x86 How reproducible: Enter system settings application. No method provided to enter administrative mode to change system settings. Steps to Reproduce: 1. From KMENU, Select Computer, Select Applications (System Settings) 2. Select Advanced, Select System (Login Manager) 3. Options are "greyed out" - no method provided to change Actual results: Options are "greyed out" - no method provided to change Expected results: Some method to enter root or administrative mode to modify settings Additional info: KDE3 has a problem with administrative mode, but at does have a method to enter. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=434624
Known problem but it hasn't been addressed yet at upstream - see http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Projects/SystemSettings for details. Long story: the module embedding and inter-process communication needed to achieve this was done using old QXembed classes and DCOP, both of them were simply thrown away when porting to KDE 4 with no replacement as of today. I'll update the status here as soon as I know more about upstream plans.
So what do we do? Add a menu entry to launch all of systemsettings under kdesu (or consolehelper or whatever)?
Created attachment 296221 [details] Preliminary support for root privs in systemsettings
Created attachment 296222 [details] Fixed clock (date/time) kcm .desktop file
*** Bug 439378 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
%changelog * Tue Apr 15 2008 Lukáš Tinkl <ltinkl> - 4.0.3-15 - workaround #434824: KDE4 System Settings - No Method To Enter Administrative Mode ...