Fwd: Proposed external dependency: PolicyKit & PolicyKit-gnome

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hey All:

If I understand it correctly, I *think* migrating to PolicyKit will help us migrate away from some troublesome GUIs (e.g., gksu).  Is this correct?

Will

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>
> Date: July 27, 2008 6:34:09 PM EDT
> To: desktop-devel-list gnome org
> Subject: Proposed external dependency: PolicyKit & PolicyKit-gnome
>
> Homepage: http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/PolicyKit/
> Proposal on d-d-l: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2008-May/msg00013.html
> License: LGPLv2 or later (I believe)
>
> Short description:
> ==================
> PolicyKit is an application-level toolkit for defining and handling the
> policy that allows unprivileged processes to speak to privileged
> processes: It is a framework for centralizing the decision making
> process with respect to granting access to privileged operations for
> unprivileged applications. PolicyKit is specifically targeting
> applications in rich desktop environments on multi-user UNIX-like
> operating systems. It does not imply or rely on any exotic kernel
> features.
>
> PolicyKit-gnome offers GNOME integration by making it easy to write UI
> for all this.
>
> Summary so far:
> ===============
> + a few +1
> + already used optionnally in a few modules
> + PolicyKit-gnome will likely be proposed for inclusion in the desktop
> in 2.26
>
> Vincent
>
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