Snipping some bits... >Major changes: dropped xdg-su tool. ... >Main pushback based on philosophical grounds. Shouldn't invite >graphical apps to runs as root. ... >Picassa includes xsu, example of demand for this kind of functionality.
Do we know what for? For install-time things, installation already runs as root (although I expect there's going to be progress made towards that not always being true eventually). What run-time things need temporary root? >Noticed that some test report were run as root. Not needed >to do that, when running as normal user test suite will >ask for root password and su to root in order to run tests >both as normal user and as root. That way it will do more tests. So the test suite is a use case for xdg-su :-) _______________________________________________ Desktop_architects mailing list Desktop_architects@lists.osdl.org https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop_architects