pkexec vs kdesu

[Harald Sitter]

On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 4:50 PM, David Edmundson
<david at davidedmundson.co.uk> wrote:
> You will probably get massively different behaviour regarding your env.
>
> pkexec won't copy anything, sudo will.
> Without $DISPLAY graphical apps are out.

Surely not an unsolvable problem. Clearly wayland fixes this ;)

> That said, polkit is totally the way forward and anything using kdesu should
> be ported. What does still use it?

Out of fameworks/plasma it appears to be used in:
- kio (desktop file suid thing)
- ksmserver
- shellrunner