Per Olofsson wrote: > Bill Allombert wrote: >> I also reported bug #535064 asking for upstream to provide a xdg-su script. >> This would be much better than any Debian-only interface. > > As I said, there was one, but they removed it. They think that > applications should use PolicyKit instead. (Not that I agree.) I also agree xdgsu is the way to go. If it was revived upstream we wouldn't need to locally patch desktop files, they could be changed upstream, and even the .desktop files standards recommend the use of xdgsu rather than $suwrapper. I asked about it in 2008 [1], but got no reply. [1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/portland/2009-May/001082.html > Unless we can get upstream to somehow accept patches and new interfaces, > I think it would be better to add them to another package. Calling > things xdg-* without having anything to do with freedesktop.org seems wrong. Agreed. Cheers, Emilio
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