Hi, On 2018-01-09 09:30 AM, bodhi zazen wrote: > Wayland is relatively new technology for Ubuntu and there are issues of > running > graphical applications with elevated privileges using sudo / gksu etc. > > This has resulted in frustration and at times heated debate in the community. > > I would ask the TB to review wayland and policies and give a statement of > clarification to be used by developers and end users as clarification of how > graphical secuity / polkit etc is to be managed as we migrate to wayland. > > There are at times heated discussions regarding wayland, graphical > applications, > and sudo / xhost and some sort of statement or policy review from the TB would > add clarity to the conversation, a roadmap for developers, and understanding > on > Wayland and the migration process to end users. > > Thank you for your consideration. >
Do you have more details of the sort of clarification you are looking for? Do you have a concrete issue that has a bug linked to it that we can look at? Thanks, Marc. -- technical-board mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/technical-board
