PolicyKit releases and !AWOL

Michael Biebl mbiebl at gmail.com
Sun Dec 16 21:08:01 PST 2007


2007/12/17, Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com>:
> On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 05:43 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
>
> > Matthias, is this X-GNOME-SystemSettings accepted by GNOME upstream or
> > a Fedora/Suse only patch. If the latter I'd suggest to apply my
> > proposed patch.
>
> I can't answer that. It is pretty unclear to me what it would mean for
> GNOME upstream to accept a menu category. But the control-center shell
> I was mentioning is in the upstream control-center, so there is some
> indication that core gnome components do pay attention to
> X-GNOME-SystemSettings.
>
> >  At least with X-GNOME-SystemSettings,
> > polkit-gnome-authorization.desktop is not correctly sorted into the
> > GNOME System->Administration menu here.
>
>
> Well, this may be the source of the confusion. We don't want it to go
> there, but to System > Preferences > System.

Hm, there is no such folder here. So it's sorted into
System->Preferences amongst the user settings like "About Me" or
"Appearance", which looks wrong to me.

Cheers,
Michael

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