Christoph Wickert (christoph.wickert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) said: > > anything at all. > > Please try to look beyond the rim of your KDE teacup for a moment. What > about the DEs / WMs that do not provide a polkit agent? Shouldn't we > make things like virt-manager just work in *every* environment? > > > IMHO, PolicyKit authentication should just be considered a > > basic desktop service which is present in ANY GUI desktop, it's up to the > > desktop environment to Require the proper agent (and up to there, I > > definitely agree with Matthias). In fact, kdebase-workspace already > > Requires: polkit-kde. > > Again you are arguing from the POV of a full featured DE. Take Xfce for > example: It is a very complete environment but still lacks a polkit > agent. Then it should provide one (even if it's co-opting someone else's), if it wants to run modern polkit-using apps. If you're reimplementing the desktop stack... sometimes you have to reimplement things. It's a fact of life. Bill -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
