Fwd: PolicyKit-KDE destiny

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 19.12.08 10:43:24, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > On 19.12.08 15:19:54, Matt Williams wrote:
> >> On Friday 19 December 2008 14:41:42 Allen Winter wrote:
> >>> Forwarding to the Release Team.
> >>>
> >>> My opinion on this was to defer to those who know the issues
> >>> much better than I.  IOW: I'm happy either way.
> >>>
> >>> ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
> >>>
> >>> Subject: PolicyKit-KDE destiny
> >>> Date: Friday 19 December 2008
> >>> From: Dario Freddi <drf54321 at gmail.com>
> >>> To: kde-core-devel at kde.org
> >>>
> >>> Hello everyone,
> >>>
> >>> After spending some time in KDEreview, I think it's time for taking a
> >>> decision about the destiny of PolicyKit-KDE. Basically the decision, based
> >>> on the proposals we had in the last discussion, is whether going for a
> >>> freeze except, or place it in extragear to allow packaging for distros and
> >>> throw it in trunk for KDE 4.3.
> >>>
> >>> I'd like to point again that this does not introduce new APIs or anything
> >>> critical, it's just a client for using PolicyKit inside KDE without the
> >>> need for the GNOME interface
> >>>
> >>> After some discussion I'll do whatever was decided.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers
> >>> Dario
> >> Where exactly is this to end up? I guess kdebase but which part? runtime or 
> >> apps?
> > 
> > IMHO apps, as its not a runtime dependency for all kde apps.
> 
> disagree, (as I understand it), policy-kde is not a standalone app, but 
> a runtime component for policykit-using apps.

Hmm, actually isn't this more something for workspace? As far as I
understood the purpose of this is to replace a GTK/Gnome-equivalent if
running a KDE desktop. Thats exactly what workspace is for.

Andreas

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