PolicyKit-authentication-agents in Fedora

[Christoph Wickert]

Am Mittwoch, den 14.04.2010, 10:25 +0200 schrieb Jaroslav Reznik:

> Hi Matthias.
> We were discussing polkit agent reorganization @ our kde sig meeting - 
> cwickert joined us too [1].
> Could you clarify autostart of the agent? I agree it should be task for 
> desktop as it's now core component and I don't see need for users to change 
> this configuration. 

I do. Xfce for example has no agent ATM, so users should be free to
choose ether polkit-gnome or lxpolkit. This could be easily done it we
allowed installing them individually. The choice which one is started
could be easily done graphically in the session properties.

If I understood Matthias correctly he wants the desktop to autostart the
agent and have it hardcoded somewhere. IMHO this is a step in the wrong
direction as it takes the user the freedom to decide what he wants to
use.

> But other question is - what about desktops without own 
> polkit or even standalone wms? Another point is autostart desktop file - if the 
> agent is going to be started by autostart desktop file, this autostart belongs 
> to agent and should be distributed together in the agent package.

+1

> Could be 
> ShowOnlyIn option considered as the correct way to achieve no autostarting in 
> other desktops?

IMO yes. And IMO we still need packages that use polkit require
PolicyKit-authentication-agent because otherwise a user of say openbox
or icewm wont get a working package.

Regards,
Christoph