Ask for root password when copying, moving, deleting

probonopd / Filer

A clean rewrite of the Filer file manager for helloSystem, inspired by John Siracusa's descriptions of "Spatial Orientation"

BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License

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Ask for root password when copying, moving, deleting #3

Open probonopd opened 1 year ago

probonopd commented 1 year ago

Ask for root password when copying, moving (including to the Trash) if a from/to location requires it.

Since we are using a separate helper program for those operations, this should be rather straightforward to implement. But we would have to recursively check permissions before we even start the operation, in order to know whether we have to ask the user for the password or not.

Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gefxkj7HeNI&t=104s

Apparently other file managers really suck at this.

probonopd commented 1 year ago

Still to be done:

Add deletion to fileoperation tool. Handle deletion with checking for sudo like the other operations.
Use it also for trashing when not on the same mountpoint.