Would like to distinguish between apps running as root and other apps
I often use Konq as root while logged in as my own user. Usually there is also another Konq window working. I often get confused as to which is running as root and which not, so that I can avoid accessing the net from the one running as root. I suggest that apps running as root while the user is logged into the session as non-root should have a red x - like the "run as root - KDE su" password dialog - as their window icon (top left corner) instead of their own icons.
On 10/03/2005 01:25 PM Shriramana Sharma wrote:
I suggest that apps running as root while the user is logged into the session as non-root should have a red x - like the "run as root - KDE su" password dialog - as their window icon (top left corner) instead of their own icons.
Better would be a different color scheme, like the root-konsole has (the yellow scheme). OJ -- "But you think you're right?" said Harry. "Naturally I do, but as I have already proven to you, I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being - forgive me - rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger." (Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter 6)
On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 01:51:45PM +0200, Johannes Kastl wrote:
Better would be a different color scheme, like the root-konsole has (the yellow scheme).
I have no KDE knowledge, so I am just guessing here: Can't you define the icon on the commandline or at least the text in the textbar at the top? houghi -- Quote correct (NL) http://www.briachons.org/art/quote/ Zitiere richtig (DE) http://www.afaik.de/usenet/faq/zitieren Quote correctly (EN) http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
Am Montag, 3. Oktober 2005 13:51 schrieb Johannes Kastl:
Better would be a different color scheme, like the root-konsole has (the yellow scheme).
Better (IMHO) would be closing root-apps if the reason to login as root is nonexistend anymore. But i'm such a lazy guy too, sometimes ;) But its dangerous. regards, Jens
Shriramana Sharma wrote:
I often use Konq as root while logged in as my own user. Usually there is also another Konq window working. I often get confused as to which is running as root and which not, so that I can avoid accessing the net from the one running as root.
I suggest that apps running as root while the user is logged into the session as non-root should have a red x - like the "run as root - KDE su" password dialog - as their window icon (top left corner) instead of their own icons.
many time ago, when lauching the kde explorer (was not yet konqueror) as root, there was a red banner on the upper left of the explorer windows. it is very important to prevent disaster to know that you are root... jdd -- pour m'écrire, aller sur: http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.net http://arvamip.free.fr
I suggest that apps running as root while the user is logged into the session as non-root should have a red x - like the "run as root - KDE su" password dialog - as their window icon (top left corner) instead of their own icons. I am not sure if this could be easily done, I think it can not. But you can change color scheme under root, or change icon-pack. So you can make root KDE apps look like really distinguishable
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On Monday, 3 October 2005 12:25, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
I often use Konq as root while logged in as my own user. Usually there is also another Konq window working. I often get confused as to which is running as root and which not, so that I can avoid accessing the net from the one running as root.
What I use to do is choose some ugly colourfull theme for root, as well as other icons - I stick to the "kde-classic" icons and some light-grey look and feel for my user(s), but I use the more "modern" icons for root, so that any root-konq window is at once identified. Thierry -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa
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