@ebassi @GerryT Just because you dislike a feature doesn’t mean that it’s complete trash. Countless folk rely on this essential feature. I use this *hundreds* of times a day. It’s incredibly useful for folks who don’t (or can’t) use a keyboard for everything.

The more serious issue however, is the attitude taken. Insulting and degrading people who rely on a feature you dislike is an absolutely unacceptable way to treat fellow humans.

@ebassi stating that what I said is incorrect contributes nothing to a discussion. If you believe that a statement is incorrect, please elaborate on that.

And please refrain for insults, this has so far been a civil conversions. I have not disrespected you in any way.

@ebassi people want “dead simple" and “want something that works like everything else”. That’s why they (try to) run gparted as root.

You can just create a socket for IPC, and use group membership to control permissions. Linux, BSD and any other Unix-like support this just fine.

Perhaps polkit+udisks has some technical advantage (compared to a socket) in some specific use case, but folks will always go for convenience. Especially the kind of folks who want a GUI.

@ebassi IIRC, udisks is pretty complicated to set up (and depends on polkit which can also be quite tricky). Consider that folks who need a GUI want something dead simple. Like “sudo gparted-daemon” and then “gparted-gui” on another terminal.

It also the kind of tool that is usually used quickly in some one-off scenario, not something for which one wants to dedicate lots of time setting up and configuring.

@ebassi is there some sort of privilege-separated GUI that folk can use instead?

I tend to use a cli, but I can definitely understand how some folk feel far more comfortable running a GUI.