GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 540897
Don't show LIRC properties in Administration menu
Last modified: 2009-09-10 14:44:52 UTC
Currently, gnome-lirc-properties shows up in System->Adminitration instead of System->Preferences->Hardware. Patch attached fixes that.
Created attachment 113681 [details] [review] Patch for the above
Hopefully this will still show up in System/Administration on debian/Ubuntu, which has no System/Preferences/Hardware/.
Would you want to test it before I commit it?
Oh, let me check.
Moves the entry to System/Preferences, which clearly is wrong: g-l-p changes settings for all users, where (AFAIK) capplets in System/Preferences should only affect settings of the current user.
(In reply to comment #5) > Moves the entry to System/Preferences, which clearly is wrong: g-l-p changes > settings for all users, where (AFAIK) capplets in System/Preferences should > only affect settings of the current user. No, that's the wrong way around. Tools in System/Administration are tools that require root credentials to be accessed. Otherwise you wouldn't have the power management features in there, or bluetooth's preferences.
But g-l-p does require root/sudo access. I'm a bit confused and I would like to see some official GNOME/Ubuntu/Fedora policy about what should go where.
gnome-lirc-properties doesn't need root/sudo, it will ask the user's own password by default, to unlock the backend. A number of other preferences can be locked down in a similar way.
commit 679313b07b9e51f46f83087b3162a6996dc9f972 Author: Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net> Date: Thu Sep 10 15:44:13 2009 +0100 Bug 540897 - Don't show LIRC properties in Administration menu 2009-09-10 Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net> * data/gnome-lirc-properties.desktop.in.in: Show the preferences in the user's preferences, not in the administration sub-menu (Closes: #540897)