Hello, An important feature of system-monitor is the ability to kill/renice process as superuser directly from the GUI. This feature depends on gksu. As gksu is not in Desktop, this makes an important feature depends on an optional external dependency. gksu has a nice simple API: gksu(command, &error) does everything : it gets the credentials (may ask for password), and tries to run the command. That's very easy to use and gksu is getting more and more robust. I think system-monitor is not the only Desktop program that needs run stuff as root (with su/sudo backend). So i'd like to have a look at what other people are using. In the end, may be we could agree to use the same library for consistency and ask for it to be an official external dependency. Thanks. -- Benoît Dejean GNOME http://www.gnomefr.org/ LibGTop http://directory.fsf.org/libgtop.html
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