GNOME panel and sudo

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Wed Aug 10 18:44:45 CDT 2005


On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 10:58:15PM +0200, Manu Cornet wrote:
> Among a few enhancements projects for the GNOME panel, I would like to 
> hide entries that require a sudo password (eg Synaptic) from non-sudoers 
> users (they can't use these programs anyway, and it would free up some 
> space and make the menus simpler to understand).

This was specified as a feature back in April:

http://wiki.ubuntu.com/GnomePanelEnhancements

is on the Breezy roadmap:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BreezyGoals

Emmanuel Cornet is being funded by Google through their Summer of Code
program to implement it, and Sebastien mentioned at last week's development
meeting that it would be uploaded before feature freeze.

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 - mdz



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