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

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

Hi,

Am Sonntag, den 18.04.2021, 17:15 +0200 schrieb Brendan Tildesley:
> > 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.
> 
> [...]
I still think we'd prefer to keep our own copy.  If not as code, then
perhaps as aux-file?

> > > +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.
Ah, thanks for clearing that up.
> 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?
If it works for XFCE, why not?  Given that polkit-gnome has no
dependents other than itself, should we perhaps also look into removing
it?

Regards,
Leo