Re: [DNG] why is polkit needed?

2020-03-04 Thread tekHedd
On Tue, Feb 25, 2020, at 3:28 AM, Didier Kryn wrote: > Le 25/02/2020 à 09:05, Steve Litt a écrit : > > On Mon, 24 Feb 2020 12:21:16 + > > Daniel Abrecht via Dng wrote: > ... > >> Without dbus, applications & daemons could do similar things using > >> unix sockets. ... > >     Yep, socket, si

Re: [DNG] FF now defaults to DNS-over-HTTPS for US

2020-03-04 Thread tekHedd
On Mon, Mar 2, 2020, at 4:34 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: > On Mar 02, 2020, spiralofhope wrote: > That is certainly some Orwellian thinking right there. You say "Orwellian thinking" like it's a bad thing. :) DD ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https:/

Re: [DNG] FF now defaults to DNS-over-HTTPS for US

2020-03-06 Thread tekHedd
On Thu, Mar 5, 2020, at 2:18 PM, Florian Zieboll wrote: > > Which leads to an even deeper question: As we tend to move into the > direction we look (think of learning a header or somersault or perhaps > also of getting through a dangerous situation when driving a vehicle) - > what does this mean f

Re: [DNG] why is polkit needed?

2020-03-06 Thread tekHedd
On Wed, Mar 4, 2020, at 9:42 PM, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting tekHedd (tekh...@byteheaven.net): > > > Re this thread, clearly a multi-user system with a GUI does need > > polkit and /some/ sort of dbus mechanism (which I will henceforth > > refer to as the "dbus mecha

Re: [DNG] why is polkit needed?

2020-03-06 Thread tekHedd
On Fri, Mar 6, 2020, at 12:51 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 02:09:37PM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote: > > Le 03/03/2020 à 23:37, tekHedd a écrit : > > > > > > So, I would consider rewriting polkit and dbus from scratch. > > > > > >

Re: [DNG] why is polkit needed?

2020-03-10 Thread tekHedd
On Sat, Mar 7, 2020, at 5:37 PM, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting tekHedd (tekh...@byteheaven.net): > > > Cool software doesn't really happen without the ability for apps to > > communicate and read/write the state of the system and communicate > > with other user level co