OpenSUSE: admittance of kio-admin into openSUSE and Tumbleweed Report

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 22, 2025

• KDE: admittance of kio-admin into openSUSE

  kio-admin is a KDE component which allows to perform privileged file operations in GUI applications. It implements a D-Bus service running as root and uses Polkit for authentication. A typical use case of kio-admin is found in KDE’s Dolphin file manager, which allows to enter an admin mode, in which file manager operations are carried out as root instead of as the unprivileged user.

• Dominique Leuenberger ☛ Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2025/08

  Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

  This week was interesting from an engineering point of view and involved some under-the-hood work—like reworking the kernel-firmware packet into more than 30 smaller source packages. The benefit is for the users: finally, only the kernel—* package with the relevant blobs needs to be rebuilt and distributed. Before, they were all just the outcome of one large build and their build counters were in sync. So updating firmware in package A resulted in also rebuilding B – and having users update this, despite not having a single change.