Plans for the desktop beyond Fedora 7

[David Zeuthen]

On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 17:03 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> > Matthias, is PolicyKit the right place to request a feature such as
> > poking firewall holes for avahi (Rhythmbox sharing, etc.)?  I seem to
> > remember that was one of the targets for this package.  Of course, I may
> > be misremembering that detail...
> 
> It's not the right place to _implement_ the poking of holes, but
> PolicyKit would hopefully be used by the thing that actually poked the
> holes to determine if you are authorized to poke holes.  It's more of a
> "decider" than an actor.  The actor asks policy kit if some operation is
> authorized, and PolicyKit says "yes/no".

Yeah, that's a pretty accurate description. 

So I actually happen to have a bunch of high-level notes about the whole
thing that I will post soon. Just need to sort them out so they sort of
make sense. Until then, there's already code in git (with 100% gtk-doc
coverage!) that should give a hint or two about how the whole thing
works..

 http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=PolicyKit.git

Also, I hope to land this pretty early in the Fedora 8 cycle because
I've already added support for this thing in HAL and gnome-mount.
Anyway, more on this later...

     David