[arch-general] [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re: gparted cant take root priviliges

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 2014-07-11 at 00:35 -0500, Doug Newgard wrote:
> On 2014-07-11 00:07, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > But software as e.g. menulibre and cinnamon-menu-editor do
> > show /usr/sbin/gparted %f, so assumed I would use xfce4-appfinder to
> > launch gparted on JWM, it would launch /usr/sbin/gparted %f and
> > _not_ /usr/bin/gparted_polkit %f. I kept the default, didn't edit this
> > entry, it definitively is /usr/sbin/gparted %f . IOW the menu's default
> > might be /usr/bin/gparted_polkit %f for the DE you're using, but for
> > e.g. Xfce4 users (xfce4-popup-applicationsmenu and
> > xfce4-popup-whiskermenu) it is /usr/sbin/gparted %f.
> 
> I just launched polkit from the xfce menu and it ran 
> /usr/bin/gparted_polkit %f as expected. I wouldn't use anything who's 
> authors decided to ignore the system and run whatever the hell they 
> wanted.

My current Arch Linux + Xfce4 was installed in February 2013. It's up to
date, but there were a few changes in the meanwhile (e.g. for the FHS).
Perhaps there was a change from /usr/sbin/gparted %f
to /usr/bin/gparted_polkit %f, but then the updates didn't modify an
existing Xfce4 menu.