Review Request 125003: Use kdesu instead of pkexec

Rohan Garg rohangarg at kubuntu.org
Mon Aug 31 14:25:47 UTC 2015


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In order to launch GUI applications with pkexec you need to ship a policy file with the following annotation :
```xml
    <annotate key="org.freedesktop.policykit.exec.allow_gui">true</annotate>
```

So perhaps we can get software-properties-kde to ship that?

- Rohan Garg


On Aug. 31, 2015, 7:47 p.m., Aleix Pol Gonzalez wrote:
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> (Updated Aug. 31, 2015, 7:47 p.m.)
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> Review request for Kubuntu, Muon Package Management Suite and Harald Sitter.
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> Bugs: 351311
>     http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351311
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> Repository: muon
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> Description
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> pkexec doesn't cut it on GUI applications, kdesu seems to work.
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> On kubuntu it should be using sudo instead of su.
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> Diffs
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>   README.PACKAGERS 28f1519 
>   libmuon/backends/ApplicationBackend/ApplicationNotifier.cpp bb56c35 
>   libmuon/backends/ApplicationBackend/CMakeLists.txt 4785e1f 
>   libmuonapt/CMakeLists.txt 1c8bae9 
>   libmuonapt/QAptActions.cpp 7b82f67 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/125003/diff/
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> Testing
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> Builds, coudln't test further.
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> Thanks,
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> Aleix Pol Gonzalez
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