On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 13:37 -0500, William Case wrote: > Ok Todd, your on. > > > I'm not any sort of expert on using zenity and don't want to make you > > rehash stuff that's been hashed over on the list already, but if you > > have a pointer to those threads I'd be curious to try and see if it > > could be made to work. It would be reinventing the wheel somewhat > > though, as this is precisely what gksu is intended to do. > zenity should need no experise -- it is so simple. > Here's the script I've got now: [snip] > The problem is: Using various variations of the above script, I can get > it to run successfully from a terminal (particularly gterminal). I have > been using it for a week. But I would like to integrate it into my > desktop. The RootBrowse script won't launch from either a desktop/panel > launcher or the nautilus-script right-click menu. > > > If that doesn't work then forget zenity and lets get gksudo/gksu > > > working. My problem is I am a beginner. I am not confident that I > > > would get all the bits and pieces (libraries) required to make > > > gksudo/gksu work smoothly no matter how they were launched or used > > > in a script in Fedora. > > > > Understandable. If you like to tinker, it's great fun to learn how to > > package things up as rpms. You can then make certain tweaks to the > > packages Fedora installs or even build new ones that aren't included > > and share them with everone else. Let me know and I'll help get you > > started with a gksu package, even if it doesn't end up being added to > > extras it might be useful to you locally. I didn't state clearly: "Yes, let's build a gksu and a gksudo package for Fedora Extras." -- Regards Bill
