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Dolphin is legitimately my favorite KDE program. My experience is that it's a phenomenal productivity tool. Being able to quickly open or close a terminal. How customizable the ordering and appearance and columns are. Easy to manipulate tabs.

I think I can count on one hand having a root file manager would be beneficial. Are you logging into a desktop as root?

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> Dolphin is legitimately my favorite KDE program.

Happiness is clicking on a folder with lots of files, hitting forward slash, typing a search term, and instantly finding your file.

I thought I didn't even have to hit / ? Perhaps that's in file picker mode.

It is in file picker.

> Are you logging into a desktop as root?

Nah, but I would occasionally like to move things around outside of /home without doing it manually in the terminal. I'm not sure why that's such a problem.

Dolphin can do that! You'll need to install kio-admin and you'll get an option to "open folder as root". After you authenticate, you'll be able to e.g. move files in /etc/

See https://invent.kde.org/system/kio-admin for details.

This will be included in dolphin natively in the near future.

Thank you for the tip, didn't know that!

I promise not to tell you "you're doing it wrong" but I would love to know what your use case is. What files are you moving so often, and why? Thank you.

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