Life Saviour: Root Actions Servicemenu

In case you use Kubuntu, Mint KDE edition, Mandriva, or another KDE based desktop, 'Root Actions Servicemenu' allows admin users to perform several root only actions from Konqueror (the KDE file/web browser). That is a very good thing, not everybody likes to use Konsole/Terminal.

Lets take a look at it now:


Infact, this works with all distros that have sudo/kdesu installed and that the user is authorized to use sudo/kdesu. The installation is pretty simple, there are three *.desktop files in the archive that need to be placed in ~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus and one script rootactions-servicemenu.pl which needs to be pasted in /usr/local/bin or /usr/bin. I prefer in /usr/bin. Note, if you want all of the users to have the menu, copy the three *.desktop files in /usr/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus instead.

When a folder is selected, the service menu gives the following options:


Open With - opens the selected item/items with a program of our choice;
Copy/Move/Rename/Delete - basic file operations, but in ROOT mode, so be carfeul;
Ownership to Root - changes ownership of the selected items to root:root;
Ownership to Active User - changes ownership of the selected items to current user e.g. martin:martin;
Ownership to ... - changes ownership of the selected items to a UserID:GroupID which we want;
Change Permissions - changes permissions of the selected items;
Open Terminal Here - opens a terminal session in the folder we are located in ROOT mode;
Open in File Manager - opens Konqueror but in ROOT mode, meaning there are no restrictions;

When a file is selected, the service menu gives the following options:


Open as Text - opens the selected item/items in Kate (the default text editor)
Open With - opens the selected item/items with a program of our choice;
Copy/Move/Rename/Delete - basic file operations, but in ROOT mode, so be carfeul;
Ownership to Root - changes ownership of the selected items to root:root;
Ownership to Active User - changes ownership of the selected items to current user e.g. martin:martin;
Ownership to ... - changes ownership of the selected items to a UserID:GroupID which we want;
Change Permissions - changes permissions of the selected items;

To download this great menu, go to kde-apps.org. There you can also post comments, suggestions, submit a translation (although there are a lot of translations already) and get help if needed.

For Mandriva users, there is a similar RPM package, so you don't need to copy all those files... Just install the package 'openasroot-kmenu'.