Re: [desktop] foomatic-gui is born

2002-11-28 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 10:13:22AM -0200, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > Em Wed, 27 Nov 2002 02:21:47 -0600, Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > escreveu: > > > Yes, some sort of "su to root" prompt is probably a good idea; dunno > > if I can reuse the existing code or what. If not, something si

[desktop] graphical su-to-root (was: Re: [desktop] foomatic-gui is born)

2002-11-27 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Wed, 27 Nov 2002 10:13:22 -0200, Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > I'm willing to work towards this, and I think it would be good to > create some policy for that, probably modify the su-to-root script > to use a "graphical su" alternative if $DISPLAY is set... Something l

Re: [desktop] foomatic-gui is born

2002-11-27 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Nov 27, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > It would be good if we had a standard way of doing that... I talked to > walters about this some weeks ago, and he suggested it would be a good > thing to merge xsu, gnome-sudo and gksu (maybe others?). > > I'm willing to work towards this, and I think it

Re: [desktop] foomatic-gui is born

2002-11-27 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Nov 27, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: > And why not use GST backends instead of rewriting them? They can be > get as an independent module from GNOME CVS. Perhaps I should package > them separately to show that they're not stuck with GNOME System > Tools, so they can also be used to wri

Re: [desktop] foomatic-gui is born

2002-11-27 Thread Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 02:21:47AM -0600, Chris Lawrence wrote: > On Nov 27, Colin Walters wrote: > > > Maybe, although GNOME System Tools is perl-based, so I'm not entirely > > > sure it's a good idea from a dependency standpoint. > > > > True enough. I just wonder if there's a way you could som

Re: [desktop] foomatic-gui is born

2002-11-27 Thread Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 12:59:13AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 22:36, Chris Lawrence wrote: > > > The module should be: > > /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/gtk-2.0/bonobo/activationmodule.so > > > > It seems to be in the python2.2-gnome2 package, at least on my system. >

Re: [desktop] foomatic-gui is born

2002-11-27 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Wed, 27 Nov 2002 02:21:47 -0600, Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > Yes, some sort of "su to root" prompt is probably a good idea; dunno > if I can reuse the existing code or what. If not, something similar > probably won't be hard to whip together (although I guess we probably > h

Re: [desktop] foomatic-gui is born

2002-11-27 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Nov 27, Colin Walters wrote: > > Maybe, although GNOME System Tools is perl-based, so I'm not entirely > > sure it's a good idea from a dependency standpoint. > > True enough. I just wonder if there's a way you could somehow reuse > some of the nice work they've done, like the root password pr

Re: [desktop] foomatic-gui is born

2002-11-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Michael Cardenas wrote: > Are there plans to create a debian-desktop list? This group sure does > have a lot of traffic, and as an official subproject, they should have > their own list. I guess the Debian-Desktop people asked for those list. Moreover a mailing list for Debia

Re: [desktop] foomatic-gui is born

2002-11-27 Thread Colin Walters
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 22:36, Chris Lawrence wrote: > The module should be: > /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/gtk-2.0/bonobo/activationmodule.so > > It seems to be in the python2.2-gnome2 package, at least on my system. Hm, I seem to be suffering from the breakage in #169035. > Maybe, although

Re: [desktop] foomatic-gui is born

2002-11-26 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Nov 26, Colin Walters wrote: > On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 19:42, Chris Lawrence wrote: > > After about 10 hours of me pulling my hair out due to the complete and > > utter lack of documentation for GNOME2 and its Python bindings, I have > > produced "foomatic-gui". > > Nifty. I tried to make-go it

Re: [desktop] foomatic-gui is born

2002-11-26 Thread Colin Walters
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 19:42, Chris Lawrence wrote: > After about 10 hours of me pulling my hair out due to the complete and > utter lack of documentation for GNOME2 and its Python bindings, I have > produced "foomatic-gui". Nifty. I tried to make-go it, but I got: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> ./foomatic-

Re: [desktop] foomatic-gui is born

2002-11-26 Thread Michael Cardenas
Are there plans to create a debian-desktop list? This group sure does have a lot of traffic, and as an official subproject, they should have their own list. On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 06:42:46PM -0600, Chris Lawrence wrote: > After about 10 hours of me pulling my hair out due to the complete and > u

[desktop] foomatic-gui is born

2002-11-26 Thread Chris Lawrence
After about 10 hours of me pulling my hair out due to the complete and utter lack of documentation for GNOME2 and its Python bindings, I have produced "foomatic-gui". It does some rudimentary autodetection (click on "Add", make sure you have parport_pc or the kernel USB printer driver loaded, choo