Add "Run As...(user)" to launcher context menu

FWIW, if we were going to add this feature at all (not saying either way at this point), it wouldn't be for applets. This is because not all applets launch apps, and some already deal with running as different users (ideally through PolicyKit).

Thanks for the clarification. Cheers.

On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 16:56 +0000, Mark Lee wrote:
> FWIW, if we were going to add this feature at all (not saying either way
> at this point), it wouldn't be for applets. This is because not all
> applets launch apps, and some already deal with running as different
> users (ideally through PolicyKit).
>
> ** Summary changed:
>
> - [FEADTURE REQUEST] Right Click Admin Privileges (open with gksu)?
> + Add "Run As...(user)" to launcher context menu
>
> ** Tags added: feature-request taskmanager
>

I'm willing to consider this but I would need to be convinced of the wisdom of adding this feature.

With the recent xml context menu work in the 0.3.9 (rewrite) branch, it's possible to do it.

Create a custom menu (I'd suggest copying advanced.xml or custom-example.xml normally find in /usr/share/avant-window-navigator/applets/taskmanager/menus/) to a path in the user's home.

Edit them and add something along the lines of

 <menuitem type="External-Command" cmd="gksudo $AWN_TASK_EXEC &amp;">Launch as root</menuitem>

Then start gconf-editor and navigate to \apps\awn-applet-taskmanager\ and edit menu_filename and give put in the full path to the new xml file. And it should be there.

Some of the specifics of the "External-Command" may change before a 0.4 release, so if it suddenly breaks it just means that the syntax has changed in some way. I am willing to consider putting this into advanced.xml also (comments requested)