Earlier today Richard and I did a DeviceKit (the set of projects replacing HAL) presentation for some other group here at Red Hat . You can see the slides here and here .
Perhaps of interest to the GNOME community, there’s also screenshots of Palimpsest, an upcoming Disk Utility library and application for GNOME. Most of this is already available in Fedora’s development branch, dubbed Rawhide, but won’t be installed by default in Fedora 10. Right now I’m busy with PolicyKit stuff but the plan is definitely to get a gnome-disk-utility mailing list going soon and get this stuff integrated throughout GNOME (I’ve already made sure it’s easy to plug into gvfs for example).
For example, I learned the other day that my disk is failing (actually, as mjg59 pointed out, it’s wrong to use the word FAILING since it’s Old-Age. Easily fixed.). Now, it would definitely be useful to have a notification b...
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gnome.conf.au 2008From: blog.fubar.dk
Post Date: 2008-01-28 19:48:56
Am in Melbourne, VIC, Australia for linux.conf.au 2008; just gave a talk on PolicyKit, the slides are here . Only had 20 minutes so the whole thing felt a bit rushed and I didn’t get to go into much detail. Hopefully it made some sense though, otherwise checkout the design and API docs .
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more Politics. Mudslinging. Chocolate.From: blog.fubar.dk
Post Date: 2007-11-26 11:32:42
Whether Murray is right or not, I think his recent rant is rather tasteless and I agree some kind of retraction/apology is needed.
FWIW, Murray’s post certainly don’t reflect what I’ve experienced when I started participating in the GNOME project 2003-2004ish. That said, I acknowledge it may reflect what others have experienced. I don’t know. Also, I tend to stay out of politics… at least politics on that level. That said, I do appreciate others doing all t...
more On Xguest, Access Control and DesktopFrom: blog.fubar.dk
Post Date: 2007-11-18 17:34:42
Dan , I think the ideas behind Xguest are nice. But your ideas about using SELinux to implement access control for users leaves much to be desired. If you think that a brutal approach of denying individual users to even access services like HAL , NetworkManager and Bluez is good, then please think again. Please realize that if you do this, the desktop experience will suddenly change. Things like networking and bluetooth applets will cease to work. The file manager will fall back to rely...
more CoverageFrom: blog.fubar.dk
Post Date: 2007-11-12 07:56:50
Andy Oram wrote a nice piece on PolicyKit detailing what it is and some of the plans for the future. I also did a short walk-through recently on one of our staff meetings here at Red Hat, there are some pseudo slides here . On the topic of coverage I’ve recently add unit tests to all the library sources and gcov tells me we’re at 59%. Not too shabby.
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