Currently gnome-games doesn't inherit games.eclass so user who are not in the games group can launch games. If possible, gnome-games should inherit both gnome2 and games so there won't be any permission problem. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Why does games have a different group at all? I'm opposed to this. The gnome games are part of gnome, and should be runnable by any gnome user. The whole separate games groups is bogus in my opinion.
There isn't a permission problem now. There isn't a good reason why somebody who has permission to use the gnome desktop environment would require extra permissions to use the simple games that are a part of it.
*** Bug 237042 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I disagree. Why games have a different group is not relevant to this bug, as they do, and without this bug being fixed, users will be told in the handbook that you need to be in the games group to play games, will intentionally not add certain users to the games group, and then find that these user accounts can run games (as I have done). Of course another possibility is that the handbook could be fixed, but that does leave the games group rather incomplete. To Joe I say basically the same thing; if there is no good reason then the games user group needs to be removed, otherwise users can find their own reasons.
We're not going to put the gnome-games into the games group. Sorry. If you don't want your users playing games (say, in a corporate environment) don't install them. The games group in the handbook is under the control of the games herd. If you want the handbook changed, you should take it up with them.
