Re: Why doesn't Fedora include gksudo/gksu as a package

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William Case wrote:
> I got a few of my own stupidities straightened out and everything
> works beautifully with zenity (in fact I can do quite a bit
> including a rough debug) in a terminal, however my script will still
> not launch from a desktop launcher or nautilus-script.  I have
> googled and asked for a week and the only consistent answer I get is
> "use gksudo/gksu".  I have nothing against them - I don't even know
> them - but it seemed to me since I've got zenity and like its cute
> little ways, I should see if I can make it do what I want.

I'm not any sort of expert on using zenity and don't want to make you
rehash stuff that's been hashed over on the list already, but if you
have a pointer to those threads I'd be curious to try and see if it
could be made to work.  It would be reinventing the wheel somewhat
though, as this is precisely what gksu is intended to do.

> If that doesn't work then forget zenity and lets get gksudo/gksu
> working.  My problem is I am a beginner.  I am not confident that I
> would get all the bits and pieces (libraries) required to make
> gksudo/gksu work smoothly no matter how they were launched or used
> in a script in Fedora.

Understandable.  If you like to tinker, it's great fun to learn how to
package things up as rpms.  You can then make certain tweaks to the
packages Fedora installs or even build new ones that aren't included
and share them with everone else.  Let me know and I'll help get you
started with a gksu package, even if it doesn't end up being added to
extras it might be useful to you locally.

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