On Thursday 20 of August 2015 11:48:25 Jonathan Riddell wrote: > On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 01:34:42PM +0200, Luigi Toscano wrote: > > On Thursday 20 of August 2015 12:16:55 Jonathan Riddell wrote: > > > I've just moved kdesudo into playground > > > > > > playground/utils/kdesudo > > > > > > it has a bunch of translations from its previous home on Launchpad. > > > > > > Could these be imported into KDE please? > > > > Do we really need it? I thought that kdesu can work with sudo if you > > configure it (runtime configuration, even if you can change the default > > with a compile flag). > > Alas because of the separation that kdesu has between a backend and a > frontend it can't work with sudo's password save mechanism and it asks > for a password every time which gets very annoying. Arguably we don't > need it since sudo isn't used much now for GUIs most things use > policykit but that would need some consultation to work out.
Maybe it's possible to change kdesu to expose a "please cache this" property between backend and frontend (in a secure way). Better than keeping two programs for exactly the same thing. Ciao -- Luigi
