Desktop Entry Spec : RootRequired entry

Jasper Huijsmans jasper at xfce.org
Fri Sep 2 16:41:52 EEST 2005


Waldo Bastian schreef:
...
>>>3) start normally, root required (e.g. gnome-terminal -e su)
>>
>>I think this could be indicated in the description/title. Why should the
>>menu system care about this?
> 
> [SNIP]
> 
>>I don't really see the need for 3). Would you handle that differently
>>than (1)?
> 
> 
> If the menu system knows that the user isn't authorized to use the root 
> account, ithe menu system should hide it because it doesn't make sense to 
> show such entry.
> 

Ok, that would be nice. How can a menu system know this though?

	Jasper



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