Why no gksudo/gksu package - FOLLOWUP

[William Case]

On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 13:37 -0500, William Case wrote:
> Ok Todd, your on.
> 

> > 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.
> 
zenity should need no experise -- it is so simple.

> Here's the script I've got now:

[snip]

> The problem is: Using various variations of the above script, I can get
> it to run successfully from a terminal (particularly gterminal).  I have
> been using it for a week.  But I would like to integrate it into my
> desktop.  The RootBrowse script won't launch from either a desktop/panel
> launcher or the nautilus-script right-click menu.

> > > 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.

I didn't state clearly:  "Yes, let's build a gksu and a gksudo package
for Fedora Extras."
-- 
Regards Bill