On Tue, 07 Jul 2009 at 10:31:54AM +0100, john lewis wrote:
> Until a short time ago Konsole had options in the File menu for a "Root
> tab" and a "Root MC tab" in addition to New tab and New Window. A
> recent update removed the two 'Root' options, I suspect a bit of
> ubuntization at work.
Which version of Konsole/KDE do you have?
KDE4 radically changed Konsole and "Root Konsole" went away on my 
Debian system - nothing to do with Ubuntu as far as I'm aware.
To create a new "Root Konsole" you probably need to create a new 
Konsole profile that executes the correct command. I've done this 
for SSH sessions but I don't use a root konsole so I've not done 
that.
> I have got used to using Konsole and would like to have those
> two options available. I have tried editing the konsoleui.rc in
> ~/.kde/share/apps/konsole but all I succeeded in doing was to end up
> with no options in the File menu, not at all what I intended ;-( 
Hacking this file is probably not a good idea.
 
> So if there is anyone out there still using an old version of Konsole
> that allows those two 'Root' tab options would they send me a copy of
> the relevant konsoleui.rc file please. 
If you are on KDE4 then the old KDE3 config files are not going to 
help a great deal...
-- 
Adam Trickett
Overton, HANTS, UK
"There seems to be something wrong with our ships today"
    -- Rear-admiral Sir David Beatty, on seeing the Queen Mary
        and the Indefatigable destroyed at the Battle of Jutland