Re: PolicyKit changes in F12

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 15:37 +0200, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> 
> Seems like direct DBus communication is the only way to do it from Qt/KDE apps 
> as PolKit library requires gtk_init() somewhere in code...  I've prepared 
> patch for polkit-qt to the new PK1 Core API but... Or is there any other way 
> to initialize glib without need for it? I'm not familiar with GTK app 
> development... But library that expects gtk_init somewhere in application to 
> be correctly intialized...

Calling g_type_init() should be enough; there is no direct GTK+
dependency in polkit-gobject. Even g_type_init() may be too much for KDE
apps to swallow though, so going directly to the bus is still a good
idea.

> PK1 should be split into parts - cross-desktop backends should be on 
> freedesktop, gnome specific libraries should be in gnome repository. This 
> should stop confusion.

You mean like 

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/PolicyKit
http://git.gnome.org/cgit/PolicyKit-gnome

?