After some investigation, i found this thread "Mini-proposal for Elevated User Privileges in menu-spec": http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2005-May/006893.html
I asked on the list how to avoid gksu dependency for a KDE apps : * if i need to provide a specific desktop file for each desktops ? * Is there a common way to elevate user privilege ? Waldo Bastian replied : > The Portland project has proposed a "xdg-su" command that could be used > to prompt the user for elevated privileges. There seems to be some > objection to that approach though so it's probably a good idea if you > subscribe to the portland mailinglist and join the discussion there, in > particular it would help if you can present actual use cases that > require this functionality. i looked at the script, it's a wrapper around gnomesu/kdesu, detecting the desktop environment (gnome/kde) : http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/portland/portland/xdg-utils/scripts/xdg-su?rev=1.7&view=markup So the main idea is to use xdg-su (depends on a possible xdg-utils package ?) in the desktop file then recommends kdebase-bin | libgnomesu0 (instead of recommends kdebase-bin only ATM). cheers, Fathi ps: * i skipped xsu and the generic part that doesn't exist on debian. * xdg-utils is a technology preview and doesn't exist on debian. * CC'ed to bugs.debian.org to keep track of the discussions ;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
