[Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#359962: alternative to X-KDE-SubstituteUID for non KDE desktops

[Olivier Trichet]

Le Lundi 24 Avril 2006 16:30, Fathi Boudra <fboudra at gmail.com> a écrit :
> After some investigation, i found this thread "Mini-proposal for
> Elevated User Privileges in menu-spec":
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2005-May/006893.html
>
> I asked on the list how to avoid gksu dependency for a KDE apps :
> * if i need to provide a specific desktop file for each desktops ?
> * Is there a common way to elevate user privilege ?
>

On Debian system, you may use the "su-to-root" program from the menu 
package. For instance, the qtparted package use this method.

bye,
nive