Review Request 115717: Do not require to have a DISPLAY env variable if WAYLAND_DISPLAY is set

[Kevin Ottens]

> On Feb. 19, 2014, 2:07 p.m., Alex Merry wrote:
> > I don't think papering over the X11-ness of kdesu like this is the right approach.  Of course, what this framework really needs is a test app; maybe a simple port of the kdesu app from kde-runtime?
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> Kevin Ottens wrote:
>     This kind of "papering over" can only be temporary indeed. Just wondering if Martin has the possibility to clean that up better at that stage?
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>     As for the test app: hell yes, definitely needed.
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> Martin Gräßlin wrote:
>     well yes if there's a testapp and that works I can implement it properly. But IIRC kdesu never worked on my setup (not having a password for root).
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> Kevin Ottens wrote:
>     You can use it for other users than root you know. ;-)
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> Martin Gräßlin wrote:
>     no, I didn't and which other users? ;-)
> 
> Kevin Ottens wrote:
>     My point is that if you need to test it's trivial to add a temporary user...

So what do we do of this patch? Any chance of a test app?


- Kevin


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On Feb. 13, 2014, 9:41 a.m., Martin Gräßlin wrote:
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> (Updated Feb. 13, 2014, 9:41 a.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Frameworks.
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> Repository: kdesu
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> Description
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> Do not require to have a DISPLAY env variable if WAYLAND_DISPLAY is set
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> If kdesu is compiled with X11 it required the DISPLAY variable to be
> set. This is no longer correct as it might have been compiled with
> X11 but is run on Wayland. Thus the code checks now also for
> WAYLAND_DISPLAY in the HAVE_X11 ifdef blocks. The Wayland support
> should become more complete, I do not know how it behaves if we compile
> without X11 support. Unfortunately there are no autotests and no test
> applications which one could use.
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> Diffs
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>   src/client.cpp 91bfd78fbca6e5d8d365d924c0260087e3937948 
>   src/kcookie.cpp 59448351696c503b34b7507e9c3fa8efc53139f9 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/115717/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Martin Gräßlin
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