Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (242 mails)

[Bernhard Walle <bwalle@xxxxxxx>]

* Pavol Rusnak <prusnak@xxxxxxx> [2007-11-08 16:07]:
> M9. wrote:
> > Maybe this is not the right place to ask this question, but one never
> > knows if someone can help with this, if one does not ask, right?
> >
> > If i look in 'other', in the xfce 4 menu, i see all the modules from
> > yast 'naked'.(is this intended?)
> > There is however no way to get into yast, or root, to manage fi software.
> > Do i have to understand that this is not possible from xfce, or is there
> > some hidden way to go into root, and call the desired gui-module?
>
> You should have yast2-mcs-plugin package installed if you selected Xfce
> pattern. This adds icon to Xfce Settings manager (called Yast2 Control
> Center). About 'naked' modules in Other menu: all
> /usr/share/applications/YaST2/*desktop files should probably have
> "OnlyShowIn=KDE;GNOME;" like /usr/share/applications/YaST.desktop does.

That's because the YaST people decided to use some KDE- and GNOME-only
(non-standardised!) extension to the .desktop format to require root
permission instead of using xdg-su. Because YaST is useless without
root permissions, we decided to show it only in KDE and GNOME.



Thanks,
   Bernhard
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