On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Francesco Fumanti <francesco.fuma...@gmx.net> wrote: > Due to incompatibility of at-spi with gksu, I wonder whether it would make > sense to create a goal for lucid+1 to eliminate gksu from the distribution. > This would at least remove part of the bugs caused by at-spi until at-spi2 > takes over. For example, when starting the Synaptic Package Manager from the > Administration menu while an application is actively using at-spi, the > desktop becomes unresponsive. Some weeks ago, I started a thread about it on > the devel discussion list: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2010-March/010770.html
In general, I think it is difficult to properly maintain both gksu and sudo independently. It's hard enough to keep sudo working with Orca, and gksu has not worked with Orca since I've been involved. My preference, not just for accessibility, but also for security, is to just have sudo, and make gksu a simple GDK wrapper for sudo. For Vinux, I wrote a simple wrapper script using zenity to replace gksu, and it seems to be working well. However, it's not good enough for distributions for sighted users. I was thinking of trying to write a better sudo wrapper in Python, so we could support all of the gksu options. I also looked into the gksu source code, but I have to admit getting frustrated at the complexity, and ending up thinking gksu should have stayed as a simple wrapper. Bill -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
