Source: gparted Version: 0.30.0-3 Severity: important X-Debbugs-CC: pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Please don't use --enable-xhost-root in Debian's gparted package. This ugly workaround was introduced upstream in https://git.gnome.org/browse/gparted/commit/?id=f38ccd02 However, it only works because gparted still uses gtk2 and will stop working once it's ported to gtk3. That is because gtk3 apps benefit from native Wayland support, but gtk2 apps run under XWayland. xhost won't help when X isn't used. We do not want to encourage other apps to use this workaround. We do want to encourage gtk2 apps to switch to gtk3. Until gparted can be ported to run the GUI with normal permissions and use non-graphical PolicyKit helpers to perform the specific actions that need elevated permissions, the recommend workaround is to simply use the GNOME on Xorg session or some other desktop session. Alternatively, the GNOME Disks app (gnome-disk-utility) runs fine with Wayland. On behalf of the Debian GNOME team, Jeremy Bicha
