Question about desktop files

[Christian Dywan]

Am Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:38:15 +0200
schrieb Jean-Philippe Guillemin <jp.guillemin at free.fr>:

> Hi,
> 
> Maybe it's the time to write a "xfsu" ?
> 
> I would **love** to get rid of gksu in Zenwalk.
> 
> Cheers
> JP
> 
> Selon Bernhard Walle <bernhard.walle at gmx.de>:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > is there some possibility to execute a program as root in a .desktop
> > file? KDE and GNOME honor X-KDE-RootOnly=true and prompt for the
> > root password.
> >
> > Of course, you can hard-code “gtksu” or something like this in the
> > .desktop file. But then it breaks KDE or GNOME because GNOME users
> > probably don’t want to be prompted by kdesu for their root password.
> >
> > Thanks for any hints.
> >
> >
> >      Bernhard
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> >
> 

Why in the world do you want to get rid of gksu? It's a super handy
tool for nothing but running graphical apps as root. It does not
require gnome. And forking or replacing a tool "for the sake of having
our own" is not worth it at all.

I hope this didn't sound harsh, but your statement simply doesn't
make sense to me without a very good reason.

Regards,
    Christian