Re: Proposed external dep: PolicyKit

[David Zeuthen <david fubar dk>]

On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 17:29 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 11:23 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com> wrote:
> > > I would like to propose PolicyKit[1] as an external dep for 2.26 - it's
> > >  mostly API stable[2], and is now being used as an optional dep in many
> > >  modules in gnome svn and HAL.
> > >
> > >  I would like to depend on it for gnome-power-manager, and I hate all the
> > >  #ifdefs. Does anybody have any problems with PolicyKit being an external
> > >  dependency in 2.26?
> > >
> > >  >From a user point-of-view PolicyKit rocks. It would be great if more
> > >  GNOME software could be comfortable using it upstream rather than being
> > >  patched by distros.
> > 
> > 
> > Actually, the patches are using PolicyKit-gnome, too. If we allow
> > dependencies on PolicyKit, we should allow PolicyKit-gnome, too, since
> > it makes it very easy to write UIs that trigger privileged operations
> > and handle all aspects of PolicyKit integration correctly.
> 
> Yeah. Direct use of the PolicyKit D-Bus API (as is currently necessary
> from Python, for instance) is a bit strange, not documented, and is
> apparently not really supported.
> 
> I haven't used PolicyKit-gnome but that should shield people from this.
> I'd like to see python bindings for it.

Actually Harald Hoyer is working on python bindings for the core
PolicyKit library. I expect this to be in the 0.9 release. I don't know
about PolicyKit-gnome; it should be simple as the main thing there is
just a GtkAction derived class. But I don't know a lot about how
bindings are done.

    David