On the Reddit thread people, at least one of them tagged as a KDE dev, mentions that widgets NEED to be able to run arbitrary code. I am absolutely baffled by this.
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Aren't widgets pieces of software? Of course they have to run code. But they need to be isolated, or at the very least not have sudo access.