Fathi Boudra wrote:
Quoting the maintainer:
> I do not think it is a good idea to use su-to-root inside .desktop
> file, because this would make such .desktop file Debian-specific
> (and thus would not be integrated upstream). Instead a freedesktop
> approved remplacement to su-to-root should be provided by xdg-utils.
AOL, that sounds like the "right way" to do things.
discussed with freedesktop people some years ago.
The tool isn't ready yet and was postponed later.
Yeah. And like I said, _we_ could start using it and later, when it is
popular, make other people adopt it. Unless a better way to su to root in a
non DE-dependent way is created.