Bug#423178: gnome-panel: time-admin applet called without gksu

[Joey Hess]

Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Well I think it's better to avoid possible mistakes due a user writing
> something with gksu on /usr/local/{s,}bin/ and having trouble to get
> gnome to work.

No, if I as an admin of a machine create a gksu in /usr/local/bin, I
want it to be *used*. This is why /usr/local/bin is in the path.

Please *never* hardcode paths to any executables in the path. There are
too many reasons why hardcoded paths are a bad idea to explain them all
in this bug report, but I'll point out the recent grub fun as one
example (since you're one of the grub maintainers).

> I always try to avoid those mistakes even more when it's for desktop
> target users (gnome is).

Nontechnical users rarely write programs in /usr/local/bin.

-- 
see shy jo
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