Re: Control Center 3.0

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 23:17 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 7:05 AM, Sergey Udaltsov
> <sergey udaltsov gmail com> wrote:
> > Hello Thomas
> >
> >> * a single window approach (no separate capplet windows)
> > Heh, I see you want to reinvent MacOS CC, don't you ?;)
> >
> >> * a common way to change 'system' properties (i.e. a way to become root
> >> when needed)
> > How do you plan to do it so that it would work in all distros???
> 
> The fairly well-established answer to this question is to have a
> system bus service that provides an api for the capplet to use.
> Vendors can then provide their own implementation of the api. This
> setup also makes it very easy to use PolicyKit for controlling access
> to system settings.

maybe it's time to resurrect my (not sure if totally dead) AdminKit ->
http://git.opensuse.org/?p=projects/adminkit.git;a=summary and add
support for it to GNOME System Tools to provide the system-wide settings
UI?