On Fri Sep 18 16:34:20 +0100 2009 David Zeuthen wrote: > I don't think either GNOME or KDE is wrong or right here. If I > understand correctly the KDE authentication dialog for PolicyKit 0.9.x > simply doesn't allow the user to not retain the authorization?
No, it apparently defaults to retaining it. > I'm not sure how this affects authors of Mechanisms either - I mean, if > the author of a Mechanism decides that auth_self_keep_always is a good > default (because the action isn't very "dangerous") then it's all good. > If the action was "dangerous" (such as installing an unsigned package) > the mechanism author would choose not to allow the user to keep the > authorization. Well, I'm perhaps overstating the importance, but without a defined behaviour for the options it's hard to know which to choose. Thanks, James _______________________________________________ polkit-devel mailing list polkit-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/polkit-devel
