Hi Chris
Yes, kdesu or gnomesu are both graphical front ends for executing
command as another user, usually root.
Rgds
Bojan
On Uto, 2012-07-10 at 16:50 -0400, Chris Frey wrote:
> Upon checking my notes, it seems kdesu is the way it is done on openSUSE.
> Is this true in your experience?
>
> Thanks,
> - Chris
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 04:40:52PM -0400, Chris Frey wrote:
> > Hi Bojan,
> >
> > Thanks very much for your patches. I'll take some time to go through them.
> >
> > It would be really nice if it were possible to avoid compiling beesu
> > specifically for openSUSE. Do you know of any similar program which
> > is available by default in the openSUSE repositories? That's what I'd
> > really like to use, and that should only require a ./configure option
> > change in the spec file, instead of compiling a whole new dependency.
> >
> > How does openSUSE request the root password when doing system changes?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > - Chris
> >
> > P.S. Would you mind if we continued this conversation on the barry-devel
> > mailing list? It is fairly low traffic these days, and would give others
> > the opportunity to help us find the best solution.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:33:05AM +0200, Bojan Vondra wrote:
> > > Hello Chris
> > >
> > > Sorry for this little delay, I took time to do some test on Barry. I
> > > compiled barry (with all options) having beesu installed on my system
> > > (openSUSE 12.1, both i586 and x86_64).
> > >
> > > beesu compiles without any problem, I took source rpm and spec file from
> > > Fedora16 distribution.
> > > Desktop option needs wxWidgets-devel to compile.
> > >
> > > Playing with barrydesktop I noticed few things:
> > > - Browse Database: if I edit Calendar entry, pressing OK on Calendar
> > > Event window kills barrydesktop.
> > > Same thing if I try to add entry, hitting OK on Calendar Event kills
> > > barrydesktop and same think when I try
> > > to delete entry: barrydesktop is killed when Yes button on dialog is
> > > pressed. NOTE: no international characters
> > > are used in Calendar.
> > > - Sync: for me, using KDEPIM works without any issues so far, but syncing
> > > with Evolution 3 eventually runs
> > > into some errors, which, I believe, lie in configuration of calendar.ics
> > > file. If you wish, I could induce
> > > these errors and report file back to you.
> > >
> > > Regarding other packages, I can't build osynctools and msynctools, others
> > > are built OK.
> > >
> > > I use Blacknerry Curve 8300 and 8520.
> > >
> > > Best regards
> > > Bojan
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Pet, 2012-07-06 at 20:02 -0400, Chris Frey wrote:
> > > > Hi Bojan!
> > > >
> > > > Thanks very much for your work on this. I have some of the build system
> > > > setup for making openSUSE packages, but haven't gotten to testing
> > > > things,
> > > > nor making the tweaks needed to the source and spec files. So I'm very
> > > > grateful for your testing work.
> > > >
> > > > It's probably better if I build the packages so you don't have to do it
> > > > on each release. If you could send me all your patches, that would be
> > > > great.
> > > >
> > > > Did you run into any issue with the guisu option in building the
> > > > Desktop?
> > > > Did you use gksu? beesu?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks!
> > > > - Chris
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 09:05:50PM +0200, Bojan Vondra wrote:
> > > > > Hello
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks for this useful program. I managed to build Barry-0.18.3 on
> > > > > openSUSE-12.1 and I want to submit RPMs (about 40M including i586,
> > > > > x86_64 and
> > > > > SRPMs), but I don't know how to do that.
> > > > >
> > > > > Due to differences of the openSUSE wxwidgets I had to slightly modify
> > > > > calls to
> > > > > functions Print, ShortPrint and barryevrbose in SyncStatusDlg.cc.
> > > > >
> > > > > My compiler complains about ambiguity on these functions when the
> > > > > input
> > > > > argument is just string, e.g. I had to modify funtion
> > > > >
> > > > > Print("No more devices to sync.", *wxBLACK);
> > > > >
> > > > > to
> > > > >
> > > > > Print(string("No more devices to sync."), *wxBLACK);
> > > > >
> > > > > I hope that this is OK (anyway, it works on my computer and I tested
> > > > > it using
> > > > > KDEPIM and Evolution3 plugin). I marked lines that I changed with my
> > > > > name.
> > > > >
> > > > > Best regards
> > > > > Bojan Vondra
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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