Finding kdesu binary

[Aleix Pol]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 3:33 PM, Andrius Štikonas <andrius at stikonas.eu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to ask how do I find kdesu binary from the code (of partitionmanager).
>
> PartitionManager tries to restart itself with root privileges and tries to rerun itself with kdesu, kdesudo or gksu...
> However, KF5 based kdesu is now in libexec, something like
> /usr/lib64/libexec/kf5/kdesu
> but it varies from distribution to distribution and not in $PATH.
>
> Is there a way to find the location in the cross-platform way? There is kf5-config --path libexec but it is from kdelibs4support
> and it's better not to depend on kdelibs4support.

If I understand correctly, you should use the KSu framework for that.
kdesu is not public API, that's why it's in libexec.

Aleix