Bug#892768: RM: gksu -- RoM; RoQA; unmaintained

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello,

Jeremy Bicha, le lun. 12 mars 2018 15:00:49 -0400, a ecrit:
> gksu has been deprecated for years. The intent of gksu is to allow
> running apps with elevated privileges but the recommended way to do
> that is for the app developer to use PolicyKit to request elevated
> privileges for the specific actions that need done instead of for the
> whole app to run as root.

Mmm, for the case of e.g. editing a file in /etc with pluma, is there a
way to do it without gksu?

The use case is for people using the Orca screen reader.

Samuel