Patched KDE Dolphin with Pixel Scaling https://fiftyfourth.xyz/git/dolphin/atom?h=master 2024-07-13T15:37:31Z 2024-07-13T15:37:31Z Felix Ernst felixernst@kde.org 2024-07-13T15:37:31Z urn:sha1:19fdc5b67990bb75009a1fc511619bd449d559d7 Previously, the authorization just silently expired without any visible change. The surprise only came when the user tried to do any action, which immediately would show a password prompt. We don't want users to randomly type passwords into password prompts unexpectedly showing up. This commit avoids that. With this change, the view container visibly de-escalates privileges and shows a message explaining what happened. A method was implemented in kio-admin to make this possible. See: https://commits.kde.org/kio-admin/a2da29289d12ef845e2c1da17ed04c59f1c47762 This commit also improves some logic around the responsibility of hiding bars and activating view containers. This is also part of my project funded by the European Commission. 2024-05-11T17:16:35Z Felix Ernst felixernst@kde.org 2024-05-11T17:16:35Z urn:sha1:6c60655ce246a91758f4b9035edf318cb1197a2c This commit adds an "Act as Administrator" toggle action to the View menu if kio-admin is installed. The action allows switching between acting as an admin with root-access or not. This was already possible in Dolphin when kio-admin is installed by editing the location bar directly. However this is somewhat unintuitive and there are no warnings at all about the dangers of acting as an administrator. This commit adds a warning dialog when triggering the action. It is somewhat explicit about the risks because this is in fact very dangerous. Furthermore, while acting on a view with administrative privileges, a bar above the view shows up that contains a warning. The bar can be closed to stop acting with elevated privileges. The warning dialog can be disabled and re-enabled from the Dolphin settings but only if the action is even available. There is a lot more to be done to further improve this feature both security-wise as well as when it comes to usability. But considering that we are already encouraging users to use this feature without any warnings at all, I feel like now is a good time to merge this. This work is part of a project funded through the NGI0 Entrust Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology. As such, please contact me if you plan on doing related work so what you are doing doesn't collide with work I am being funded to do.