Printer Configuration no longer integrated in System Settings?

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Tue Jul 26 10:38:24 UTC 2011


Martin Kho wrote:
> Kevin, thanks for your info. Aren't the modules "Date & Time" and "Login
> Screen" already using PolicyKit?

Yes. They used to be root-only, but they got ported to KAuth, which uses 
PolicyKit behind the scenes.

Only the following are still root-only:
fileshare
kcm_kdnssd
kcmsambaconf
system-config-printer-kde

These should all be fixed to use either KAuth or PolicyKit directly. The 
root-only flag isn't even supported by upstream KDE at all. (They dropped 
support for it in 4.0.0.) We made it work with a hack. But things are 
supposed to use KAuth/PolicyKit instead.

        Kevin Kofler



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