Support for a RequiresRoot option in .desktop files
Bug #16967 reported by
Jerome Haltom
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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desktop-file-utils (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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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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This bug was filed along with bug #16965 and bug #16966 which are both related to
the same problem.