PolicyKit-authentication-agents in Fedora

[Jaroslav Reznik]

On Wednesday 14 April 2010 10:47:12 Christoph Wickert wrote:
> 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.

For desktops that ships own polkit agent you don't need this freedom. Actually 
it's quite bad - own polkit agent is usually designed to be an integral part 
of it. For now - polkit-kde is standalone package but it's for now before 
transition from the old one to new one is done. Then we'd like to have it as 
part of kdebase-workspace again and shipped together. Of course - situation 
for other desktops could be different (Xfce etc.) and this has to be solved.

Jaroslav

> 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

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