https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=509248

--- Comment #2 from Sanmay <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1)
> Unfortunately there's no way to improve this from the KDE side. `sudo` is a
> command-line tool that doesn't know how to display a GUI authentication
> prompt. So if there is none, it'll just ask invisibly into the ether,
> hanging forever. As such, this is unfortunately a configuration issue on
> your side that needs to be fixed there too.
> 
> If you replaced `sudo` with `run0` or `pkexec`, then it would do what you
> expect automatically, because those tools do know how to display a GUI
> authentication prompt.
I presumed it as a bug because Linux Mint had prompted with the GUI
authentication when a script with `sudo` was there in `.bash-profile`. But
yeah, what you say makes sense.

Thanks. Will update my code.

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