Manu wrote:
I will be concentrating on the root privileges (rather than a more
general "other-user" privilege).
That's probably a good idea. I don't think anybody has enough experience
with MAC on desktops to be worrying about SELinux integration just yet
(despite what i've said in the past ;)
I believe that adding a
RootRequired=yes|no|optional
to the Desktop Entry Specs would do the job ? (Then, I should make the
items with a "RootRequired=yes" field to be hidden for non-sudoers).
That looks OK to me. I know we could use this in autopackage once widely
adopted, right now we do all our own user switching/authentication.
So the next step is to write a couple of patches:
a) For the specification XML document
b) For the GNOME panel
c) Ideally, for the KDE panel too
Then post to the relevant mailing lists for GNOME/KDE and get feedback
from the more experienced developers there. If they are happy with it,
submit the patches to bugzilla and work with the maintainers to get them
checked in.
At various points people may say, "but I like feature XYZ" - that's
fine, it may be necessary to adjust the spec slightly so these extra
features can remain as desktop-specific extensions. But my advice to you
would be to try and keep the core specification change minimal.
thanks -mike
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