Friday 27 July 2007, Phil Dillon-Thiselton wrote: | On 27/07/07, Damir Perisa <damir.perisa@solnet.ch> wrote: | > Friday 27 July 2007, Phil Dillon-Thiselton wrote: | > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2005-August/thread.htm | >l#5651 | > | > but i don't know what happened since then. | | Well, it looks like they hit the same snag - how do you know which | of a multitude of run as root apps are available for that user? | Even if there was a field in the .desktop file where you could add | a run as root app you can't guarantee that every user/system will | have it. That mean another layer of functionality outside the | .desktop file which falls outside the FDS remit, I think. the .desktop files are read by DE's for menu-making. the DE has usually a standard "su" tool. that's why i was thinking in the beginning, that this would be the ideal thing to handle needs-root conditions. but if gooeydo works, great for us! :) greetings, damir -- .·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´ ° ° ° ° ° ° ><((((º> ° ° ° ° ° <º)))>< <º)))><