On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 10:32:48PM -0400, David Zeuthen wrote: > Btw, consolehelper / usermode can be considered that "helper" but one of > the primary reasons that it's bad is that it launches an X11 running as > root. This means that a) the app is not accessible; b) the toolkit gets > confused and you get e.g. "root"'s home in the file chooser; c) things > like gconf don't work; d) it's generally a bad idea to run GTK+ apps as > root (image loaders, the sheer size of code running as uid 0 etc.); and > many other reasons. Right, I think everyone who isn't at least on this page needs to *get there*. This is basically the definition of the problem to be solved, from my point of view. > I know some people still think that consolehelper is "good enough". I'm > not terribly interested in discussing that... A convenient feature of consolehelper is that it works on unmodified code -- it's effectively like aliasing selected applications to "sudo application". Or "gksudo application" really. At doing that, it's "good enough". The problem is: no one should really be doing that. But I don't see a reason consolehelper/usermode couldn't exist in parallel until apps are ported to a user-front-end/root-mode-helper architecture. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
