On Friday 29 January 2016 16:30:44 Luigi Toscano wrote: > On Friday 29 of January 2016 16:13:55 Aleix Pol wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 3:33 PM, Andrius Štikonas <andr...@stikonas.eu> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I would like to ask how do I find kdesu binary from the code (of > > > partitionmanager). > > > > > > PartitionManager tries to restart itself with root privileges and tries to > > > rerun itself with kdesu, kdesudo or gksu... However, KF5 based kdesu is > > > now in libexec, something like > > > /usr/lib64/libexec/kf5/kdesu > > > but it varies from distribution to distribution and not in $PATH. > > > > > > Is there a way to find the location in the cross-platform way? There is > > > kf5-config --path libexec but it is from kdelibs4support and it's better > > > not to depend on kdelibs4support. > > > > If I understand correctly, you should use the KSu framework for that. > > kdesu is not public API, that's why it's in libexec. > > Is there a reason for that? I understand that we are trying to push people to > use policykit and proper privilege request, but (unfortunately) there are > applications that could be run as root from time to time. > > Having it in PATH (which some distribution do) allows to do > ALT-F2-> kdesu <app>
Since (IIRC) the main reason for moving kdesu to libexec was to avoid a clash with the KDE4 kdesu, I see no reason against installing a kdesu5 script in PREFIX/bin which contains: #!/bin/sh exec /full/path/to/libexec/kdesu (using configure_file to expand the path during cmake time) -- David Faure, fa...@kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr Working on KDE Frameworks 5 _______________________________________________ Kde-frameworks-devel mailing list Kde-frameworks-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-frameworks-devel