[Sugar-devel] [PATCH] use ConsoleKit instead of HAL for

[Sascha Silbe]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 01:19:54AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:

>> > > For what it's worth, I would prefer to see a patch which simply 
>> called "sudo
>> > /sbin/shutdown -h now" and "sudo /sbin/shutdown -r now". I don't 
>> see the value
>> > that D-Bus and ConsoleKit are providing here.
That patch was rejected some time ago. [1]

> It is, nevertheless, true that the authentication details vary from 
> platform to
> platform. I just don't think they vary enough to be worth making more 
> use of
> D-Bus and ConsoleKit.
I guess the worth of going through ConsoleKit comes from keeping close 
to the Gnome codebase and being able to apply parts of their 
documentation to Sugar - we're rather sparse on the latter.


> P.S. - I might feel differently if I knew how to make D-Bus and 
> ConsoleKit work
> sanely with chroots, which I care about deeply for purposes of 
> testing.
I do most of my development work inside chroots, usually with no system 
DBus available. I've recently landed several patches in mainline that 
allow this to work.
To me, having shutdown/reboot not work inside a chroot is a feature, not 
a bug. ;)


[1] https://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/615

CU Sascha

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