Bug 82246

Summary: Usability: "execute as an other user" should provide a dropdown list with currently existing users
Product: [Applications] kmenuedit Reporter: Michel Nolard <chuck>
Component: generalAssignee: Julien Borderie <frajibe>
Status: ASSIGNED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: frajibe
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 0.5   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Michel Nolard 2004-05-26 15:07:18 UTC 
Version:           0.5 (using KDE 3.2.2,  (testing/unstable))
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.3 (Debian 20040401)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.6-meg-0.2

Instead of providing a "free text edit" zone to input a name for the field "execute as an other user", KMenuEdit should provide a list (some type of dropdown bow, I think) to allow the user to select an existing user name.

This list is fairly easy to construct. A good thing would be to concatenate the UID to the user's name...

The list would be looking like this :
  root (0)
  daemon (1)
  bin (2)
  ...
  chucky (1000)
  ...
  nobody (65534)

I think the sort should be done by name.

Go on with this improvements, KDE is becoming more and more accessible and usable ! :)
Comment 1 Waldo Bastian 2004-07-29 14:52:03 UTC 
kiosktool does this already. May need to think of a good place to configure "don't show UIDs below 500"
Comment 2 Julien Borderie 2013-08-27 09:15:16 UTC 
Good improvement, I will working on.

9 years later, "Mieux vaut tard que jamais".