April 13, 2010 Meeting Logs (forgot links)

[Bill Cox]

I was asked to post my current gksu script to this thread, so here it is.

There are two scripts, one to deal with some gksu options, which are
translated into sudo options, and another to open the dialog box and
ask for the password.  Both of these should probably be rewritten as
Python wrappers, and the dialog box that pops up should be enhanced to
look like the gksu dialog.

I find that with this change, I don't have issues with
at-spi-registryd anymore.  Most importantly, it enables the ubiquity
installer to run reliably with Orca.

I've created a Debian package for it, which is available through the
Vinux/Lucid PPA.  I have it directly overwrite /usr/bin/gksu, which is
a hack.  The down-side is that if you uninstall the package, you're
left with no gksu executable at all.

Bill
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