FS#5998 - GParted - Menu entry installs without gksu prefix.

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Andrew Swinn (Phlosten) - Tuesday, 12 December 2006, 21:46 GMT
Last edited by James Rayner (iphitus) - Saturday, 14 April 2007, 14:40 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To James Rayner (iphitus)
Architecture not specified
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.2 Gimmick
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

After installing GParted the menu entry created in Gnome is without the gksu prefix. GParted is only able to be run with root permissions and so the entry is useless without editing it.
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Closed by  James Rayner (iphitus)
Saturday, 14 April 2007, 14:40 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Jens Adam (byte) - Tuesday, 12 December 2006, 23:36 GMT
No thanks, I don't want a gksu dependency for gparted.

Targets: libxslt-1.1.17-1 docbook-xsl-1.69.1-1 scrollkeeper-0.3.14-5 gnome-common-2.12.0-5 orbit2-2.14.3-1 gconf-2.16.0-2 gnome-keyring-0.6.0-1 libgtop-2.14.4-1 libgksu-2.0.1-1 gksu-2.0.0-1
Comment by Dale Blount (dale) - Tuesday, 12 December 2006, 23:39 GMT
good point Jens.

also, each user may have a different preference for graphical interface to su, i do believe there is more than one.
Comment by James Rayner (iphitus) - Wednesday, 13 December 2006, 00:29 GMT
on the other hand, the menu entry is useless without some sort of graphical su/sudo.

is there any graphical su interface which has minimal deps?

James
Comment by Jens Adam (byte) - Wednesday, 13 December 2006, 01:05 GMT
Not sure if it would work, but perhaps a script with xdialog and sudo?
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Tuesday, 03 April 2007, 08:42 GMT
agree that there should be one *su command be put in front of the menu entry.
but make gksu only an optional dep. recommend to install it in a post.install comment.
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Tuesday, 03 April 2007, 08:56 GMT
But then menu entry will work only with those *su command that are written in .desktop file, so it doesn't make much sense to make that gksu dependency optional, or am I missing something? :-/

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