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.
Waldo Bastian Linux Client Architect - Client Linux Foundation Technology Channel Platform Solutions Group Intel Corporation - http://www.intel.com/go/linux OSDL DTL Tech Board Chairman >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:xdg- >[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fathi Boudra >Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 3:08 AM >To: xdg@lists.freedesktop.org >Subject: alternative to X-KDE-SubstituteUID for non KDE desktops > >hi, > >a user of a KDE apps asked for an alternative to X-KDE-SubstituteUID for >non >KDE desktops: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=359962 > >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 would like to avoid gksu dependency for a KDE apps. Do i need to provide >a >specific desktop file for each desktops ? or Is there a common way to >elevate >user privilege ? > >cheers, > >Fathi >_______________________________________________ >xdg mailing list >xdg@lists.freedesktop.org >http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg