pirut, pup, system-*: policykit integration

Andrew Farris lordmorgul at gmail.com
Sun Jan 13 01:03:15 UTC 2008


Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Daniel P. Berrange <berrange <at> redhat.com> writes:
>> gnome-system-tools lets you do exactly that. The core functionality is
>> all in the non-GUI backend. The GUI is just a shim which talks to the
>> backend over DBus. So you can plug in whatever GUI you like and use the
>> same backend code . Feel free to write a backend for KDE / whatever other
>> DE you care about...
> 
> But something tells me the "gnome" in the name won't make the project very 
> attractive to the KDE community...
> 
> Personally I don't care too much about the name, even though I think having 
> something like "gnome-system-tools-backend" as a dependency of whatever the KDE 
> version would be called if it gets written is going to confuse users.
> 
>         Kevin Kofler

Yeah that probably needs to be rethought, perhaps breaking the backend out to a 
'DE independent' package name and description that gnome-system-tools then 
depends on.

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