Friday 27 July 2007, Phil Dillon-Thiselton wrote:
| On 27/07/07, Damir Perisa 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
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