Hi !
This seems like the wrong way to go about this to me. There are some things users SHOULD see in the menu AND that require elevated priveleges to use. Changing the date/time, software update tools, file sharing with samba, are just some examples.
I really can't see why these things SHOULD be seen in the menu for non-sudoers. If I don't have a sudo/root password, and I want to set the time & date, I click on the appropriate entry... And the only thing I can get to is gksudo's dialog awaiting for a password, which I don't know. That doesn't give me much of an information (not to mention it's quite frustrating), and in this case I'd better see this entry hidden from me, since I can't use it anyway.
As long as a program can actually provide me with some information without entering a sudo/root password (even though maybe I can't change everything I want, just visualize the settings), then its RootRequired value should be at least "optional", and the entry won't be hidden.
If your menus are overly cluttered, it might be better to think about how some of these things can be consolidated, or reorganized, so that the menus are not as cluttered. I don't think we should be putting workarounds for usability/design issues within the specs.
The menus are already very well organized, especially the System menu with an Administration submenu. I just really don't see the point of letting non-admin users see all this admin stuff they can't use at all, even inside a submenu...
Cheers, Manu _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
