Looking for co-mentors for a GSoC Dolphin/KIO project

[David Faure]

On dimanche 8 janvier 2017 19:48:49 CET Elvis Angelaccio wrote:
> Hi David and everyone,
> GSoC 2017 is near and it's time to discuss project ideas.
> This year I want to tackle one of the biggest problems in Dolphin:
> lack of polkit support. Dolphin users often don't know how to use the
> command line, so when they have to move root-owned files around they
> are forced to start Dolphin with root permissions, which is bad and
> dangerous.
> 
> GSoC is a great opportunity and I'm confident we can find an awesome
> student who will fix this. :)
> 
> I started a draft of the project idea in [1] and I'm looking for
> co-mentors and feedback.
> In particular @David:
> 1) Am I right to claim that KAuth support needs to go only in the file
> protocol? i.e. basically refactor into KAuth actions the parts of
> file.cpp and file_unix.cpp where the actual interaction with the
> filesystem happens.
> 2) Is this even possible from a techical point of view? Or maybe KAuth
> and ioslaves don't play well together?

I like the idea. Unfortunately I know *nothing* about KAuth and Polkit.
I suggest talking to Aleix Pol for instance.

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David Faure, faure at kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr
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