On Thursday 04 April 2019 13:45:52 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 06:36:32PM +0100, Joe wrote: > > On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 16:02:13 +0300 > > > > Reco <recovery...@enotuniq.net> wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 09:20:51AM -0300, Francisco M Neto wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2019-04-04 at 12:33 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > > > > > If it is not, there is nothing preventing it's return to > > > > > repositories > > > > > > > > > > > some time after. It happened with other useful and popular > > > > > > packages before. > > > > > > > > > > Indeed. Reading the bug report demonstrates that ppl are keen > > > > > for it to be re-instated. However, not working properly in > > > > > Gnome is considered (understandably, IMO) a show-stopper. > > > > > > > > What is the problem between Synaptic and Gnome? I've been > > > > using both without a single hiccup for years... > > > > > > The official reason is "'sudo synaptic' does not work with Wayland > > > session, therefore GNOME users will be confused". Also, comment 50 > > > from #818366. > > > > I recall having trouble, twice, with a new Synaptic and its pkexec > > invocation. I was probably supposed to do something obscure with > > policykit, but instead I switched the menu entry to gksudo. > > ... and in Wayland session it's either policykit or nothing. Thing's > designed to be single-user only. > As #818366 shows, synaptic's usage of policykit is 'improper', and > that's not even counting certain X11 calls (which do not work in > Wayland for obvious reasons). > > In short, Wayland is upon us. > > Reco
The solution seems simple enough, fix wayland. This is after all a multiuser and multitasking OS, why go out of the way, way out of the way to make it work like win-3.0? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
