[Bug 209084] Re: no run as root in menu in hardy

[Nathan Handler]

Let me try to clear some things up. su-to-root "will automatically call
either gksu (default) or kdesu (when being launched under KDE) for
better integration into the running desktop environment." Otzenpunk's
script seems to attempt to do the same thing. One issue I have come
across is that menu does not suggests gksu, kdebase-bin, kdebase-
runtime, or sux. It does not depend on them. As a result, By just adding
menu as a recommended package in wireshark, we are not guaranteeing that
the user is able to use gksu (or any of the variants). Personally, I
think we should recommend menu in wireshark, and then try to get menu to
depend on (instead of suggest) gksu, kdebase-bin, kdebase-runtime, or
sux.

I am not sure what Debian/Ubuntu policy has to say about this. gksu is
fine for use on Ubuntu. However, I don't think we should be using it for
applications installed on Kubuntu. su-to-root was designed to solve this
issue. I think it is much simpler to recommend menu, and then use su-to-
root for the .desktop file than to have to create a custom shell script
like Otzenpunk did, for each application that needs to be run as root.

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no run as root in menu in hardy
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/209084
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