From: Brendan Tildesley <mail@brendan.scot>
To: 47870@debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Leo Prikler <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at>
Subject: [bug#47870] [PATCH 1/2] gnu: polkit-gnome: Add autostart .desktop file.
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2021 17:15:31 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <687049384.78340.1618758931217@office.mailbox.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b3ce4381e7436997df786da721fe101804c54ad7.camel@student.tugraz.at>
> On 04/18/2021 4:47 PM Leo Prikler <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Brendan,
>
[...]
> Instead of sourcing the desktop file from a really obscure location,
> would it be possible to express this in terms of `make-desktop-entry-
> file'? This also has the added advantage, that it could be inlined
> into the phase.
I did this because the file has many translations, so it would be a lot
of lines: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/archlinux/svntogit-community/packages/polkit-gnome/trunk/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1.desktop
I was just trying to source it so translations weren't duplicated.
[...]
> > +PolicyKit-gnome is no longer used in GNOME but has become the
> > default agent
> > +for XFCE.")
> Is that so? Even if this holds for GNOME 40, it's not true for Guix'
> GNOME until wip-gnome is merged, or does 3.34 already use something
> else?
It's much older than that. I think it was used for Gnome 2 and long since
discarded. The release is years old and the repo untouched for 3 years.
On second thought perhaps another option is just to use the MATE polkit
agent instead? I tested it for changing network manager and it worked
just the same, only the GUI looks slightly different. I was searching
What do you think?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-18 15:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-18 13:13 [bug#47870] [PATCH 0/2] Autostart polkit-gnome in XFCE Brendan Tildesley via Guix-patches via
2021-04-18 13:17 ` [bug#47870] [PATCH 1/2] gnu: polkit-gnome: Add autostart .desktop file Brendan Tildesley
2021-04-18 13:17 ` [bug#47870] [PATCH 2/2] gnu: xfce: Start polkit-gnome agent on login Brendan Tildesley
2021-04-18 14:47 ` [bug#47870] [PATCH 1/2] gnu: polkit-gnome: Add autostart .desktop file Leo Prikler
2021-04-18 15:15 ` Brendan Tildesley [this message]
2021-04-18 15:52 ` Leo Prikler
2021-04-19 6:56 ` Brendan Tildesley
2021-04-19 7:36 ` Leo Prikler
2021-04-19 11:02 ` Brendan Tildesley
2021-04-19 11:12 ` Leo Prikler
2021-04-19 11:26 ` Brendan Tildesley
2021-04-19 12:01 ` Leo Prikler
2021-04-19 13:30 ` Brendan Tildesley
2021-04-19 13:47 ` Leo Prikler
2021-04-21 5:31 ` Brendan Tildesley
2021-04-21 8:44 ` bug#47870: " Leo Prikler
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