I mentioned briefly in Tuesday's team meeting that some apps like synaptic don't work on Wayland. I promised that I would provide a bit more information.
Part of GNOME on Wayland's design enforces a higher level of security than non-Wayland. [1] Synaptic doesn't have real PolicyKit integration. It has a simple pkexec script that still ends up running the whole app as root instead of just the specific actions needed. This does not currently work in GNOME Shell. There actually is a GNOME Shell patch [2] that would allow this simple pkexec to work, but the GNOME Shell maintainer is understandably uncomfortable with pushing that change. I'm CCing the Ubuntu security mailing list, but I suggest that replies be kept to the ubuntu-desktop list. [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F25_bugs#wayland-root-apps [2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/763531 Thanks. Jeremy Bicha -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
