On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Ian Wadham <iandw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi David,
Hi Ian, > > On 29/11/2014, at 1:19 AM, David Edmundson wrote: >> Polkit-kde-agent is a small daemon that runs in the user's session bus, and >> prompts a user for authentication when a process on the same session >> requests polkit authorisation. >> >> It is currently in extragear/base, however given it is an essential part of >> the workspace in order to use polkit actions I would like to move it to be >> part of the Plasma release. >> >> This was discussed on plasma-devel with positive reception from active >> maintainers, I am asking on core-devel to confirm no-one has any objections >> to us making this move. > > If you can possibly avoid it, please do not put Polkit-kde-agent in a > Plasma-only module (as has happened to Dr Konqi). That is if p-k-a > is something that might need to run on a platform where Plasma is > not used, such as Windows or Apple OS X. polkit-kde-agent is very much part of the desktop session and manages authentication prompts from Polkit. Windows and OS X have their own frameworks here, while other desktop environments such as GNOME, Xfce, etc. would provide their own polkit agents. Polkit is used to run helpers with additional privileges (usually by running as root) to perform certain tasks (like changing the system time). > > Cheers, Ian W. Thanks, Ben > > > >>> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe << >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
