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[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#727708: Xfce & logind



On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 08:38:47AM +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> On 15/01/14 22:17, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> > Now, as far as I understand it, PolicyKit/ConsoleKit are unmaintained,
> > and the recommended alternative is to use logind. That means in the
> > future, it's likely that upstream Xfce will have to move away from
> > consolekit. That's not something they really like, considering the
> > support was added not so long ago, but there's not much choice, unless
> > someone wants to maintain consolekit in the long run. And it seems that
> > the only choice right now is to go with logind.
> > 
> > No patch have already been merged for that, but there are patches for
> > various components (xfce4-power-manager and xfce4-session mostly, since
> > for Thunar it's actually done in gvfs and/or udisks, so we won't have a
> > choice anyway). 
> 
> Maybe I've misunderstood what you mean there, but xfce4-session had logind
> support merged[1] a while ago, though consolekit support is still there and you
> can choose to build one or the other.

Yeah actually it was mostly about xfpm.

Also note that it's not yet released, and that the upload issue still
stands.  Unless there's a runtime detection (like some of the proposed
patches for xfpm), logind support is not something I can really upload
until the tech-ctte has made its decision.

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis




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