Package: lintian Severity: wishlist Hi,
it would be nice if lintian could give a warning when maintainers are using gksu or kdesu in their desktop files or menu entries. Basically for two reasons: 0. Desktop Integration It doesn't make sense that e.g. a KDE application calls (hardcoded) kdesu when beeing used on a Gnome environment. It should use su-to-root, which will automatically call either gksu (default) or kdesu (when beeing launched under KDE) for better integration into the running desktop environment. 1. Live Integration On Debian Live systems, we can not use su, but sudo (avoid setting a root password for security and usability reasons). If all desktop entries and menu files would use su-to-root, we can overwrite the default usage of su on one central place (/etc/su-to-rootrc resp. ~/.su-to-rootrc) and be done with it. Currently, an application on a live system which requires root rights but calls kdesu or gsku instead of su-to-root uses therefore su, which won't work, and thus, the user ends up with a non-working application. -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-baumann/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
