bug#47870: [PATCH 1/2] gnu: polkit-gnome: Add autostart .desktop file.

[Leo Prikler <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at>]

Hi,

Am Mittwoch, den 21.04.2021, 07:31 +0200 schrieb Brendan Tildesley:
> > On 04/19/2021 3:47 PM Leo Prikler <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at>
> > wrote:
> [...]
> > Fair enough, so it's either gnome or mate for XFCE.
> > 
> > > At this point I just want to pick one and get it done with. If
> > > you
> > > like
> > > I can make mate-polkit like your suggestion but rename the
> > > desktop
> > > file
> > > so it doesn't conflict.
> > It's your choice, what you want to implement:
> > 1. gnome-polkit with an added desktop file (but please use an aux
> > file
> > or make-desktop-file-entry instead of an origin pointing into the
> > aether)
> > 2. mate-polkit-for-xfce with the renamed desktop file.
> > 3. something completely else
> 
> I made a patch for mate-polkit-for-xfce.
> 
Thanks.  I've pushed them with some slight changes.
> 
> > > Debian's package says this on gnome-polkit:
> > > "This implementation was originally designed for GNOME 2, but
> > > most
> > > GNOME-based desktop environments, including GNOME 3, GNOME
> > > Flashback,
> > > and MATE, have their own built-in PolicyKit agents and no longer
> > > use
> > > this one. The remaining users of this implementation are
> > > Cinnamon,
> > > XFCE and Unity. "
> > Hmm, in that case keeping gnome-polkit around longer might be
> > desirable
> > if people want to port Cinnamon or Unity.  What does Debian's
> > desktop
> > file look like and could we port it over?
> 
> It has OnlyShowIn=XFCE;Unity;X-Cinnamon;
> 
> It also applies four patches of course
> 0001-Select-the-current-user-to-authenticate-with-by-defa.patch
> 0002-Auth-dialog-Make-the-label-wrap-at-70-chars.patch
> 0003-Get-user-icon-from-accountsservice-instead-of-lookin.patch
> 0004-Use-fresh-X11-timestamps-when-displaying-authenticat.patch
> http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/policykit-1-gnome/policykit-1-gnome_0.105-7.debian.tar.xz
That still looks reasonable imo.  If at some point you're dissatisfied
with MATE's polkit agent, feel free to package it.

Regards,
Leo