ConsoleKit 0.2.4

[Michael Biebl]

2008/1/24, S.Çağlar Onur <caglar at pardus.org.tr>:
> Hi;
>
> 24 Oca 2008 Per tarihinde, Matthias Clasen şunları yazmıştı:
> > On Jan 24, 2008 3:01 PM, Michael Biebl <mbiebl at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > No, there should be a new component sitting on top of CK and HAL.
> > > Simple, isn't it.
> > >
> > > > This picture is much closer to the truth:
> > >
> > > No, it isn't.
> >
> > At this point, we should agree to disagree and move on.
>
> I do not think its that simple and i also do not see the "we cannot agree on
> that, so lets move on" thing is an option.
>
> I always thought that ConsoleKit will only responsible for "tracking users,
> login sessions, and seats" as its description says. And what i understand
> from that claim is really simple and clear like following;
>
> ConsoleKit will be used for others (Others somehow that needs session/user
> information, say HAL, X-Kit, Z-Manager etc.) as an information provider. So
> these others will decide _what to do or not to do_ based on these
> informations.
>
> So if we start to implement _these actions_ in ConsoleKit and let ConsoleKit
> decide itself _what to do or not to do_ thats clearly a design violation (at
> least for me). And if we really need a decision maker for reboot
> request "/sbin/halt" for console and login managers for GUI is the right
> place to put this on based on the ConsoleKit and PolicyKit's informations.
>
> We already have enough vodooo black magic between pm-utils and HAL, so please,
> please, please, do not introduce another one. Let ConsoleKit act like an
> information provider about users/sessions etc. and others to use it.

Well said
+1

Michael


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