[bug#47870] [PATCH 1/2] gnu: polkit-gnome: Add autostart .desktop file.

[Leo Prikler]

Hi,

Am Montag, den 19.04.2021, 15:30 +0200 schrieb Brendan Tildesley:
> > On 04/19/2021 2:01 PM Leo Prikler <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at>
> > wrote:
> > 
> >  
> > Am Montag, den 19.04.2021, 13:26 +0200 schrieb Brendan Tildesley:
> > > > On 04/19/2021 1:12 PM Leo Prikler <
> > > > leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > 
> > > >  
> > > > Hi Brendan,
> > > > 
> > > > That's a pretty large package description for something rather
> > > > trivial.
> > > > Would the following work instead?
> > > > 
> > > >   (package/inherit mate-polkit
> > > >     (arguments
> > > >      `(#:phases
> > > >        (modify-phases %standard-phases
> > > >          (add-after 'unpack 'patch-desktop-for-xfce
> > > >            (lambda _
> > > >              (substitute* "src/polkit-mate-authentication-
> > > > agent-
> > > > 1.desktop.in.in"
> > > >                  (("MATE;") "XFCE;"))))))))
> > > > 
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Leo
> > > Uhh ok it's simpler source code but now we're building it twice,
> > > potentially having two copies of it and the .desktop file will
> > > have
> > > the same filename and thus conflict if both desktops are
> > > installed.
> > Oh, right, I was missing the part, in which we rename it.
> > W.r.t. "building it twice", that's only if you have both mate-
> > polkit
> > and the new one in your profile, in which case I guess it would be
> > tolerable.  If you're using just MATE or just XFCE you'll build one
> > or
> > the other.
> > 
> > FWIW, there is also xfce-polkit [1], but it was last updated 2020
> > with
> > the latest release in 2018 (which is still more recent than 2011,
> > though).  WDYT?
> > 
> > [1] https://github.com/ncopa/xfce-polkit
> 
> Yeah I saw these but there is next to zero information on them.
> I packaged it and it seems worse. It doesn't even have OK/Cancel
> buttons
> for mouse operation in the password entry dialogue. It uses
> libxfce4ui
> and has "xfce" in the name but otherwise doesn't seem any more or
> less
> suitable for xfce than other agents.
Fair enough, so it's either gnome or mate for XFCE.

> At this point I just want to pick one and get it done with. If you
> like
> I can make mate-polkit like your suggestion but rename the desktop
> file
> so it doesn't conflict.
It's your choice, what you want to implement:
1. gnome-polkit with an added desktop file (but please use an aux file
or make-desktop-file-entry instead of an origin pointing into the
aether)
2. mate-polkit-for-xfce with the renamed desktop file.
3. something completely else

I know that waiting long for your patch to be upstreamed can be
frustrating, but I'm not here to tease you; rather I want to ensure,
that whatever you do ends up not as a quick and dirty fix, but a proper
package.

> Debian's package says this on gnome-polkit:
> "This implementation was originally designed for GNOME 2, but most
> GNOME-based desktop environments, including GNOME 3, GNOME Flashback,
> and MATE, have their own built-in PolicyKit agents and no longer use
> this one. The remaining users of this implementation are Cinnamon,
> XFCE and Unity. "
Hmm, in that case keeping gnome-polkit around longer might be desirable
if people want to port Cinnamon or Unity.  What does Debian's desktop
file look like and could we port it over?

Regards,
Leo