PolicyKit-kde?

[Petrus de Calguarium]

Jaroslav Reznik wrote:

> Hi, unfortunately we weren't able to prepare our 
Polkit 1 rewrite for F12
> - we are always one step behind PolicyKit upstream as 
we depends on their
> work. Polkit-qt library is nearly ready to release, 
we went different path
> than old one. The old one was just one method for 
checking authorization +
> GUI part, now it's 1:1 mapping of Polkit-gobject-1 
library to Qt. So it
> was more difficult but now we have ground for KAuth & 
KDE authentication
> agent. It should be really easy to write support! I 
hope next one, two
> weeks to release it and ship in Rawhide! For F12 
we're going to use Gnome
> authentication agent but as Polkit us not so wide 
used in Fedora yet, it's
> not a big deal - PackageKit + some system 
configuration tools (kdump,
> services). In KDE 4.4. situation is going to change 
as lot of KDE system
> settings modules are going to use KAuth.
> 

Thanks for the clarification :-) It's always good too 
know the whys and wherefores, as it makes setting up 
one's system easier.