[packagekit] libpackagekit-gnome

[Richard Hughes]

On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 15:55 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> Sure, but that's only in the PolicyKit authentication dialogs and
> that's intended [1]. However your session-daemon that _provides_ this
> service would show the consent prompt, e.g. "The application Totem
> wants to install XYZ", long before the PolicyKit authentication dialog
> would ever appear.

Sure, that would be done using the code in the current
libpackagekit-gnome. You are correct that if a dbus service, this would
have to be done in gpk-update-icon rather than in the calling
application via the shared library.

The fact that this can be done as a dbus service or a shared library
only seems to boil down to one point:

* You can re-implement this using a different dbus service for KDE

This alone might be a good reason to switch.

Richard.