[kportage-bugs] [Bug #2444] kportage menu entry is in wrong category and should use kdesu

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http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=2444&group_id=2642

Changes by: Sebastian Kratzert <address@hidden>
Date: 2003-Feb-02 22:06 (Europe/Berlin)

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Strange, "X-KDE-Username=root" does not work for me.

BTW: We are currently discussing how to solve the problems with superuser and 
so on.
When starting KPortage as superuser, all clicked links will start
a Konqueror with the same rights, which is very bad imho.




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Submitted by: vtowel                  Project: KPortage                     
Submitted on: 2003-Feb-02 17:08
Category:  None                       Severity:  5 - Major                  
Bug Group:  None                      Resolution:  Fixed                    
Assigned to:  None                    Originator Email:  address@hidden
Status:  Closed                       

Summary:  kportage menu entry is in wrong category and should use kdesu

Original Submission:  KPortage should not be placed in the KDE "Applications" 
group. I think the "System" group makes much more sense, since that is where 
other system configuration tools are stored, such as KPackage.

Also, when you run click the KPackage menu item, it is not run as root, so the 
menu item is useless for normal users. (I have no reason to run KPackage unless 
I am root.) The user has to change the menu entry manually and prepend "kdesu" 
to the command so the menu item is useful. The user should not have to make 
this, not using change; "kdesu" should be prepended to the kportage command in 
the menu by default.

Follow-up Comments
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Date: 2003-Feb-02 22:06             By: skratzt
Strange, "X-KDE-Username=root" does not work for me.

BTW: We are currently discussing how to solve the problems with superuser and 
so on.
When starting KPortage as superuser, all clicked links will start
a Konqueror with the same rights, which is very bad imho.


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Date: 2003-Feb-02 21:32             By: vtowel
Good point about avoiding a dependency to kdebase. But instead of using kdesu, 
you could just add the parameter

X-KDE-Username=root

to the end of the kportage.desktop file. That worked for me (I think it 
automatically invokes kdesu if it's available), and I don't see that this adds 
a dependency for kdebase. (Besides, a .desktop file is really only useful if 
you have kdebase installed, right?)

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Date: 2003-Feb-02 19:30             By: skratzt
Moved KPortage to System. I just was too lazy in the past to do it ;)
Concerning kdesu, we decided to not run KPortage with kdesu by default, because 
we didn't want to have a dependency to kdebase. There are other possibilities 
to become root so it should not be forced to use kdesu.


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