[Tutor] Checking the desktop environment

[Tiago Saboga]

On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 01:00:36AM +0100, Alan Gauld wrote:
> "Timo" <timovwb at gmail.com> wrote
>
>> graphical box for root-password.
>
> This is the sort of thing that I meant about modern Unices messing
> things up. Why on earth should anyone need a user environment
> specific su box. That should be a standard dialog controlled by the
> app and the user environment controlling the GUI aspects. Too
> many Windows programmers are working on Linux IMHO! ;-)

FWIW, Debian tries to address this mess with a su-to-root script which
tries to do the right thing, launching gksu, kdesu or simply su in a
new xterm. 

Tiago Saboga.