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

[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...


        Frederic