
kdesu patch(mockup)
Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements
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sheean
16 years ago
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rADOn
16 years ago
enhancing kdesu is good idea but you have to keep in mind that most people use kdesu just to slam in root password and don't need fancy user selection and bloaty eyecandy, so any enhancement to kdesu should be optional.
personaly i like the idea but would prefer some less obtrusive way to select users. say - classic kdesu dialog with password plus edit field for typing in username manually, with history/autocompletion. plus, optionaly, button which would pop up selection box with all possible names or toggle iconview. what do you think ?
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anmaster
15 years ago
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lucher
16 years ago
su [option] [user] [shell_args]
kdesu should have a similar syntax
just add a new option to get the user selection dialog
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fungs
16 years ago
Another tip is, to keep the ability of manually editing/inserting the users name. This will avoid to switch to the mouse when one is used to work with the keyboard.
Since you have designed a nice side graphic there is no need to remove it, but please don't let it get too huge, it looks oversized then.
Another suggestion of mine for those who like eye candy ist the integration of the kdm login user graphics for user selection. This might bloat the code though.
Please keep on doing what you planned.
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dolio
16 years ago
I'd really like to be able to totally lock root logins and only use sudo, but currently I can't do that in KDE (Gnome, or at least Ubuntu, has successfully done this, so you might look at their stuff for how to go about it).
If you can't get to this though, don't worry about it. It'd just be a nice feature, and probably an even better argument for replacing the old kdesu.
Cheers.
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ringo
16 years ago
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Maxilys
16 years ago
Eventually an history of the last kdesu'ed action would get us closer from perfection... ;-)
As for the image on the left, just make it switchable so the ones who don't like this feature can just switch it off. I think it's totally useless but it's also one of the things that makes this new kdesu so attractive.
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frankqn1
16 years ago
Witch desktop theme you're using?
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davidf
16 years ago
I don't think the picture on the left side fulfills any real purpose, the application name is shown in the title bar, so better remove it.
Great idea anyway!
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Maxilys
16 years ago
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ris
16 years ago
There should be a way of just typing the username in. Having to click around can be very annoying when you have a lot of users.
The standard unix way of denoting users is user:group rather than user/group.
Should there be a way of greying things out if the user isn't in wheel?
Other than that, interesting.
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djworld
16 years ago
Apart from it, I like the idea.
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tagwar
16 years ago
So one could do alt+f2, kdesu (or whatever you want to call it), choose program and user and run it..
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Yaba
16 years ago
And I think the display of the users should be shown after clicking on an 'Expand' or 'Advanced' button and not by default.
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blaster999
16 years ago
Keep up the good work - I can't wait to see this great app!
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lucher
16 years ago
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