On ven, 2008-05-02 at 20:07 +0100, Rob Taylor wrote: > > The problem is that not everything/one uses dbus, and software would > need to > > be rewritten. > > This is true. At least for GNOME this is making good progress > however. > KDE also seems to be making some progress in this regard as well. > It'd > be good (maybe after GNOME 2.26) to keep a list of common apps in > collaboration with upstream that aren't using PolicyKit. Xfce currently uses dbus for some apps (and there's not much apps needing root anyway). But not all people want to run dbus in their desktop (using only a wm and not a complete DE), and may want to use those apps, needing root access. Too much dependencies may not be that cool for them. Cheers, -- Yves-Alexis
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