The sudoers and status bar edits have been removed temporarily from the latest build pending a resolution.
-----Original Message----- From: Spencer, Bob Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 12:10 PM To: Tollef Fog Heen; [email protected]; Brandt, Todd E Subject: RE: Moblin-applets Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Matthew Garrett > >> There's a couple of issues with moblin-applets that I'd prefer to >> discuss before getting it into the archive. The first of these is the >> modification of the hildon-desktop statusbar config. Shipping a copy >> in hildon-desktop and then modifying it in the moblin-applets >> postinst would result in a conflict every time the file changes in >> the hildon-desktop package. Diversions work badly with conffiles, so >> I'd be interested in opinions on how to handle this situation. > > The usual way would be to make hildon-desktop have a statusbar.d with > configuration file fragments it assembles. > > [...] All of the statusbar plugins already have .desktop files in /usr/share/applications/hildon-desktop/statusbar . The file /etc/hildon-desktop/statusbar.conf seems mostly useful for dictating the order. Perhaps they could add an entry for [*] to get anything not explicitely listed, then we wouldn't need to edit hildon-desktop when we add a new statusbar plugin. We have similar problems with the other configuration files, such as marquee.conf. The /etc/hildon-desktop/desktop.conf file references "marquee.conf" and marquee.conf is part of hildon-desktop, but its contents are controled by a separate package. If we want to change the layout we have to change hildon-desktop. > >> A better solution would involve separation of privileges, with the >> privileged operations being carried out by a suid backend with >> careful validation of all input. However, I appreciate that >> implementing this before gutsy is probably unrealistic. What do >> other people think? > > Agreed on both counts. Would it be possible to make it use gksu and > not modify sudoers, for now? "For now" I we removed sudoers editing and I believe thereby disallow the user to change the date/time using the UI dialog. Todd, can you confirm? We'll look into gksu. Bob > > -- > Tollef Fog Heen > UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- Ubuntu-mobile mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-mobile
