GNOME panel and sudo

[Danilo Šegan]

Yesterday at 23:57, Manu Cornet wrote:

> * How are we gonna do that (pass it from gdm to gnome-menus) ? :)

eg.

export USER_IS_ADMIN=1

(if someone sets it incorrectly, they'll incorrectly get the menus
they wouldn't otherwise get: no big deal) 

> * These changes will probably go upstream for gnome-menus ; so, what
>   if the login manager is not gdm ? I'm not sure I can ask kdm, xdm,
>   etc. (these programs still exist, right ?), maintainers to change
>   their code for this :)

Why not?  If it seems reasonable in other environments (and it does),
there's no harm in asking for it (fwiw, I think you have the same
chances of getting this into GDM as in getting it into KDM).

Cheers,
Danilo