Re: add a special Provides: to all login manager packages

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On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:11:27 +0100
Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Christoph Wickert wrote:
> > What is not working? Are there any DM related bugs in bz? The only
> > one I know is related to gdm, one of the DMs you call working.
> 
> Try accessing your sound card (as a regular user). If you use
> PulseAudio, it'll fail to start entirely due to no permissions, if
> you don't, playing sound will still fail due to no permissions. HAL
> only gives out permissions to the sound device to local users
> registered with ConsoleKit.
> 
> Also try accessing a USB stick (as a regular user). I don't know if
> XFCE or LXDE provide the tools to mount them through HAL in the first
> place (if they don't, that would be a separate serious usability
> issue), but try Nautilus or Dolphin. This will also fail without
> ConsoleKit support, because again HAL only gives out permissions to
> local users and only ConsoleKit tells it what users are local.

Just as a side note, yes, Xfce does support this with the thunar-volman
plugin. You can tell it what to do with any number of removable devices
(mount, copy pictures with gphoto2, etc). 

Yes, we need ConsoleKit support to work. 
:)

kevin

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