Ubuntu
desktop-file-utils package

Support for a RequiresRoot option in .desktop files

Bug #16967 reported by Jerome Haltom
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
desktop-file-utils (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
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Sebastien Bacher

Bug Description

Including a property in a .desktop file named RequiresRoot may make it
easier/cleaner to support programs that require super user privs such as
settings programs.

Right now gksudo is hard coded into those programs requiring it. I suspose this
makes gksudo used on KDE as well.

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Jerome Haltom (wasabi) wrote :

This bug was filed along with bug #16965 and bug #16966 which are both related to
the same problem.

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Jay Camp (jayc) wrote :

Here is the xdg thread I started about adding this to a part of the official
standard.

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2005-May/006893.html

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

upstream issue

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

The desktop files use "X-KDE-SubstituteUID=true" for that now, marking as fixed

Changed in desktop-file-utils:
status: Unconfirmed → Fix Released
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