Post #1496819

2026-04-21 12:45 UTC

There's just a few things desktop environments need to adopt and properly integrate on Linux, and that's being able to launch any applications that doesn't require the user opening up a Terminal just to do sudo /usr/bin/app-requires-sudo and it's all with this one simple easy hack; In the right-click Context menu add a "Run with sudo" to the menu list, a similar Windows user equivalent to "Run as Administrator" option from the right-click Context menu. I would recommend making this a toggle feature that the user would have to enable themselves in their preferences of the desktop environment, and know what it means to enable it by default.

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@Alkaris@meow.social 2026-04-21 12:58

The second thing that should also be addressed is crash handling of applications. Often when an application crashes there is no user feedback as to what happened when nothing shows up on the users screen after clicking on it to launch the application. What should happen instead is have a Crash Log window popup showing all the same information as if you ran it inside Terminal. Print out what happened in the backend to the Crash Log window. This would make it easier for people to identify why their application couldn't run with this little bit of user feedback and be able to copy that output or save it to a text file should they need to report their issue they're having.

Open ##1496951
@starsider@valenciapa.ws 2026-04-21 14:48

@Alkaris@meow.social What do you need it for, specifically? In KDE for example, to browse files there's already an "open as administrator" context menu option when a folder is not owned by the user, and all apps I know that require admin permissions (e.g. KDE partition manager, kdiskmark for some partitions, rustdesk when enabling or disabling the service, steam when setting up VR the first time, etc.) pops up a password dialog for admin access. For some other things (like access to a serial port), people shouldn't use sudo, but should add themselves to the appropriate group (uucp in the case of serial ports). That should probably be a feature of applications like Arduino IDE (to ask for admin access to add yourself to the group). Just running stuff as root can be problematic, not just because of security issues, but also because of littering the home directory with files that the user can't read.

Open ##2227766