On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 10:08 +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote: > > For GNOME, I'll simply move the polkit-gnome-authentication-agent > > autostart file from polkit-gnome to gnome-session. > > This means that other desktops can no longer make use of polkit-gnome > and user or have to provide their own desktop file. This means users can > no longer choose which agent to start. What's so bad about choice? Xfce > users might want to choose wheter to use lxpolkit or polkit-gnome. It doesn't mean any of that. If you want to use polkit-gnome-authentication agent, simply start it in your session, by whatever mechanism you prefer. The autostart file is just an implementation detail. I might just as well make gnome-session just launch it directly. > >From a packaging POV the autostart file clearly belongs to the > application it starts just as a normal desktop file belongs to a > package. The authentication agent is not an application. It is part of the desktop infrastructure. -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
