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

[Elvis Angelaccio]

On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 8:07 PM, David Faure <faure at kde.org> wrote:
> 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.

Thanks. No idea if he's on this ml, I'll CC him :)

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