Waldo Bastian schreef:
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What I would like to see clearified is whether, in case of "RootRequired=Yes",
the menu system should do whatever is needed to run the program as root, or
whether that is the responsibility of the application itself. In KDE the menu
system typically calls kdesu to run the application as root when it indicates
that it requires root, but there are also cases where an application is
started with normal user privileges but which will require the root password
later on.
So I think something is needed that covers the following options:
1) start normally, no root required
2) start as root, root required
These look useful and can use desktop/distro specific means to get root,
or simply be hidden if a menu implementation does not provide a way to
get root.
3) start normally, root required (e.g. gnome-terminal -e su)
I think this could be indicated in the description/title. Why should the
menu system care about this?
4) ask whether to start as root, root not required (optional)
A separate desktop file, maybe?
5) start normally, root may be required later on for some actions (optional)
Hmm, sounds like that's up to the application to handle, IMO.
I don't care too much about 4) and 5)
I don't really see the need for 3). Would you handle that differently
than (1)?
Jasper
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