MXPI suggestion - enter password after click on "Install"

[Buck Fankers]

Only if it is easily achievable and if it makes sense.

Often, we check for some piece of software, to see if it is in MXPI or to see description of a program mentioned say on forum. Would it make sense to change MXPI behavior, so need for password entry would only be at installation and not for just peeking into MXPI? Just a thought... ;-)

[manyroads]

Only if it is easily achievable and if it makes sense.

Often, we check for some piece of software, to see if it is in MXPI or to see description of a program mentioned say on forum. Would it make sense to change MXPI behavior, so need for password entry would only be at installation and not for just peeking into MXPI? Just a thought... ;-)

Where are you having to enter passwords? On first use, I think, you can give permission for all subsequent passwords to be auto magic for apps like MXPI, synaptic and a few others.... I never have to re-enter them.

[Buck Fankers]

Often, we check for some piece of software, to see if it is in MXPI or to see description of a program mentioned say on forum. Would it make sense to change MXPI behavior, so need for password entry would only be at installation and not for just peeking into MXPI? Just a thought... ;-)

Where are you having to enter passwords? On first use, I think, you can give permission for all subsequent passwords to be auto magic for apps like MXPI, synaptic and a few others.... I never have to re-enter them.
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No, I was not talking about reentering them. But the first initial password entry could be after we decide to install something. In case, if you want to just check if some app exist in MXPI for example, you wouldn't need to enter password for this.

As I originally wrote, if this makes sense and only if it is easy to implement.

[manyroads]

No, I was not talking about reentering them. But the first initial password entry could be after we decide to install something. In case, if you want to just check if some app exist in MXPI for example, you wouldn't need to enter password for this.

As I originally wrote, if this makes sense and only if it is easy to implement.

I'm not sure why you need to do that... I don't. That was my point. Or maaybe I simply have no idea what the problem is... it's probably number two in that list.

[Buck Fankers]

I'm not sure why you need to do that... I don't. That was my point.

Well in that case I'm doing something wrong. Maybe is because I have auto-login into MX enabled?
Anyway, if say, I turn computer on and then I want to check something in MXPI I need to first enter password, before I can use MXPI. If the rest of you guys don't need to, then I need to change something on my side ;-)

[richb]

That is normal behavior upon first using MXPI, that is entering the password. Subsequent invocations do not require it.

[Buck Fankers]

That is normal behavior upon first using MXPI, that is entering the password. Subsequent invocations do not require it.

Well, in this case, would it make sense, to move this password entry to the later stage, once someone decides to install something? So just peaking into MXPI, looking for something, without installing anything, would not need password entry?
Of course if this password entry is part of bigger integration and needs to be there at that time, then I'm taking back my suggestion ;-)

[Eadwine Rose]

Synaptic works the same way.. you just have to be root to access. Not that big of a deal.. once you have entered it you can access it all day without having to again.

[azrielle]

I have a different suggestion. Why not make Synaptic an INSTALLABLE OPTION inside MX-PI's "popular applications"? That way, new users would be forced to learn about its superiority to Synaptic, other than the minority that use apt-get to install stuff. It's not unheard of--Kali Light came without Synaptic 3 years ago, perhaps it still does (I installed it way back then because I wanted Xfce and the cool dragon splash screen, not because I wanted to make use of its more nefarious options. Seriously!).