Re: pirut, pup, system-*: policykit integration

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 00:33 +0000, 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
> 

You are lucky... the backends are called system-tools-backends, and live
on fd.o: http://system-tools-backends.freedesktop.org/