@Hewus: If menu will be the standard for that in the future, say in Intrepid, then it will certainly be o.k, and maybe a better solution than now. But currently, this would be a weird exception. Everything else uses gksu in their .desktop files on Ubuntu, be it wireshark-comparable tools like ettercap or etherape, or system tools like synaptic, gparted or display-config. Just grep for gksu resp. su-to-root in your /usr/share/applications and see what I mean.
This should not be decided on a per package basis, but by policy, and at the moment, either policy or best practice seems to be to use gksu. So I would prefer at least to include it with the same functionality as in Gutsy without mandatory recommendation/dependencies on another package with no other use for. I agree with you, that a dependency on menu is not the right thing to do, because there may be one or the other, who only want to use wireshark to analyze logs or don't use the menu entries at all. So I would either prefer to stay with gksu, as it was in Gutsy and as other packages do it, or use gksu, su-to-root and maybe kdesudo as multiple working alternatives, like explained above. gksu is already included in ubuntu-, xubuntu-, edubuntu- and gobuntu- desktop, and if you install recommended packages per default, as you say is the way to do, even many KDE users would have it already on their systems. I do not see the point of making a solo run here. -- no run as root in menu in hardy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/209084 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
