I’m trying to understand what issue you’re referring to. Surely you can sudo via command line, or on the menu (as below?). Maybe it’s worth taking another look.
Yeh dut z try to run “sudo kate” or “sudo dolphin” even “dolphin --sudo” dosend work corectly as the elevation from menu that will take you admin rights after short time window in midlle of work … no thanks .
If i want sudo app open … i have good resson for that … i hate if my apps try to act smarter over me and complicate my work 
But plasma is gon for now … now i tryin to get somthing well known but taken from litme diferent angle … if im succesful it will be good for me …
But yeh at the end it will be endeavour os (i have try to use dinit and S6 but … holy f… there is so many problems so much hand work to get done even small thing) - and i realy low sysmtem-boot … finaly the ugly old grub is gone:-D … miss only easy boot to brtfs snapshot (or i dit not find easy way to doit)
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If you have read permissions for the file but not write, open it with Kate like every other file and once you try to save the file, Kate will ask you for your sudo password. Works really well in my opinion. No need to enter your sudo before.
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love it i have that wallpaper too i mean i used it before its kewl (your whole setup)
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Very nice! 
nice shark! 
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Thanks!
Finally went ultrawide 
Wallpaper is recolored using gowall.
Fedora 41 is coming together with GNOME 47 but I think I’ll stick with 40/46 for a while before upgrading. This is the first version upgrade I’ll have to deal with after starting a custom Silverblue image - I know I have my deployment backups to roll back to in case of any instability, but still… 
Plus, I’ve been keeping an eye on Pantheon development and checking out their development digest posts. Seems like elementaryOS is going to be releasing 8 soon with Wayland support.
Pantheon via sodalite running within GNOME Boxes:
I gave elementaryOS and Pantheon a try several years back. Unfortunately it was very buggy at the time and it didn’t help that I had 0 Linux knowledge. So I’m excited to get a taste of the Pantheon experience in 2024 (or 2025, whenever they release elementaryOS 8). Probably will stick to sodalite though, I’m not going back from Atomic Fedora! Not that I think I will be able to actually switch from daily-driving GNOME, but if Pantheon on Wayland turns out to be just as good, I might consider.
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Here’s mine. EndeavourOS with LXDE desktop on old Acer Aspire V5 with 1.0GHz dual-core AMD A4 and 4GBs of RAM. 
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Two desktops, XFCE and Plasma. Similar setups. Plasma is impressive but XFCE is, in my opinion, under-rated and unfairly regarded as “dated”.
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In general, I agree with your statement. BUT… to get XFCE to not look dated, much more work has to be put in. XFCE out-of-the-box IS dated. KDE Plasma is not. IMHO.
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I want to love it every few months I try it, but it takes some dialing in. like lxde. harder than it should be especially panels, settings. compositor etc. I agree.
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To be fair, XFCE has been a “go to” desktop for quickly setting up a PC for years. So, I recognize I have a lot more familiarity with it. Even so, I don’t think I agree that it takes “a lot more work” to configure it. I’m also finding that, while Plasma has great integration and overall polish, XFCE has more control of the desktop elements. For example, I can size and position an XFCE panel anywhere on the desktop. I’m limited to specific locations with Plasma.
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…now, THAT, being said and, again, trying to be fair. I was playing around with the “Window Rules” settings in Plasma and finding it a bit hit-or-miss. I do like that it gives you a tool to positively identify the element class you’re trying to effect though. I suspect that it’s going to refine over time and that will certainly close the gap somewhat in how configurable the two desktops are.
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Make no mistake, Plasma is good, it’s very good. It’s just that, familiarizing myself with it has made me realize how good XFCE has always been.
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That’s why you should carry your themes and dotfiles with you, either on a physical drive or on a Git repo. Fortunately, with Xfce it’s relatively easy.
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I have a stupid question because I hear the term saving “dotfiles” a lot—this means every folder in /home that has a /. (dot)-prefix? or the files too?
As per “dotfiles”, we mean the files in your ~/.config and ~/.local directories – they are configuration files for most of your applications on the system (including DE/WM), and the fact they are stored in folders hidden beyond the dot (.) makes the name.
Also, your shellrc and other rc’s if you store them in your home folder, would apply.
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Here’s how I’m actually running with XFCE these days. As for the layout, I’m finding I like it for Ultra-Wide monitors.
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thank you.
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