[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#642918: Bug#619432: Bug#619432: policykit-1-gnome: do not start agent in GNOME3 normal session

[Michael Biebl]

Am 25.03.2011 08:04, schrieb Frederic Peters:
> Michael Biebl wrote:
> 
>> Am 23.03.2011 21:34, schrieb Frederic Peters:
>>> Package: policykit-1-gnome
>>> Version: 0.99-2
>>> Severity: normal
>>>
>>>
>>> gnome-shell comes with its own implementation of a policy kit agent, so the one
>>> provided by policykit-gnome shouldn't be started.
>>>
>>> The mechanism to do so is available in gnome-session 2.91, thanks to a new key
>>> in the autostart file, AutostartCondition.
>>>
>>> Setting it to "GNOME3 unless-session gnome" means that for sessions started
>>> with gnome-session, the session named "gnome" won't get the agent started. (the
>>> other known session name is gnome-fallback).
>>
>> thanks for the patch. Unfortunately, if I test it with GNOME2 (2.30/sid), the
>> polkit-agent is no longer started.
>> Is this syntax not backward scompatible?
> 
> Oh shit I was pretty sure that key was introduced in 2.91 but it was
> not, and gnome-session 2.32 fails to parse it, and disable the
> component instead :/
> 
> Let me think about a solution...



<mbiebl> Np237: I now rememeber why I didn't add the AutostartCondition to
pk-gnome: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=619432
<mbiebl> we could use the same approach as for notification-daemon though
<mbiebl> ship a autostart file for pk-gnome in gnome-session 2.3x
<Np237> yeah :/

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