Question about desktop files

[Christian Dywan]

Am Fri, 24 Aug 2007 19:16:31 -0300
schrieb "David B. Cortarello" <nomius at users.berlios.de>:

> On 8/24/07, Christian Dywan <christian at twotoasts.de> wrote:
> > Am Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:50:59 -0300
> > schrieb "David B. Cortarello" <nomius at users.berlios.de>:
> >
> > > On 8/23/07, Jean-Philippe Guillemin <jp.guillemin at free.fr> wrote:
> > > > Christian Dywan wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > 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.
> > > > Gksu prior to version 1.3.7 : yes.
> > > >
> > > > After this version Gnome session and Gnome keyring are needed
> > > > (no more "-a" switch if I remember well). That's why Zenwalk
> > > > still provide version 1.3.7 of Gksu.
> > > >
> > > > > And forking or replacing a tool "for the sake of having
> > > > > our own" is not worth it at all.
> > > > >
> > > > It would be worth to have a password session keyring in XFCE
> > > > imho.
> > > >
> > > > > I hope this didn't sound harsh, but your statement simply
> > > > > doesn't make sense to me without a very good reason.
> > > > >
> > > > I guess you expected me to state things without a good reason,
> > > > right ?  ;)
> > > >
> > > > Cheers
> > > > JP
> > > > > Regards,
> > > > >     Christian
> > > >
> > >
> > > I wrote a simple program called ktsuss that works as gksu (it
> > > started like an application for Kwort, but anyone can use it),
> > > but it is a lot smaller and simpler than gksu. It doesn't have a
> > > keyring session and probably it will never have so.
> > >
> > > Anyways, it's only gtk2 dependent, so any with G* can run it.
> > > You can download it from here:
> > > http://dcortarello.googlepages.com/ktsuss-1.0.tar.gz
> > >
> > > Bugs reports and suggests are welcome.
> >
> > This looks (and works) nicely already. In case there is a
> > general interest in replacing gksu this might be our successor of
> > choice.
> >
> > A strong suggestion of mine would be to use a native gtk dialog
> > instead of a custom window. If you are not so used to gtk I will
> > gladly tell you how to do that or make a patch.
> >
> > Regards,
> >     Christian
> 
> Of course, patches of any kind are welcome. Send me the patch and
> I'll merge it. I'm not very good at interfaces so ktsuss doesn't look
> very nice because of that. :P
> Actually I think that native gtk dialog will make the code look
> smaller and simpler which is that ktsuss is all about.
> 
> Anyways, the idea of ktsuss is to "Keep The SU Simple" (The another
> "S" I leave it to you :-P) and I think it already does it. :)

In fact I had intended but forgotten to ask about the name. I had
wondered if it was some German pun, thinking of suss (süß) = sweet,
this would have explained the double s at least.

I'll send you a patch for the interface soon.

Yours,
    Christian