Hi All

I'm running Manjaro KDE and I have found an annoying design bug.

What I am simply trying to achieve is:
- Open Timeshift
- Use the "Browse" function in Timeshift
>> What this should do is simply launching the default File Manager (Dolphin) at the location where my snapshots are saved.

It's as simple as it sounds.. However this never works.

I found out the reason why.. It's because Timeshift always runs as root, and on KDE, root cannot open Dolphin.

This can be discovered by running sudo timeshift-launcher on Konsole, then if I select the Browse button I could then see that Timeshift attempts to open my snapshot directory and get: Executing Dolphin with sudo is not possible due to unfixable security vulnerabilities.


Surely this is a simple function that should be actionable? Is there any plan on when this 'security vulnerability' can be fixed?

Since Timeshift is not a KDE application, how is that our problem?

You can report a bug here: https://github.com/teejee2008/timeshift/issues

From KDE side nothing will be changed, as running Dolphin as root is not a good idea.

I had something similar happening, but in my case, it was trying to open another program, in this case, Azure Data Explorer, which is what I use to make changes to my Azure MS-SQL databases. I installed Nautilus, and everything worked perfectly afterward, leaving Dolphin in place for everything else.