The Dell Mini Project

Use PolicyKit in aircraft-manager

Bug #354377 reported by Luca Ferretti
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The Dell Mini Project
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Bug Description

The aircraft manager utility is great, but it forces you to enter the password any time you like to swith wifi on/off.

The PolicyKit framework could be used instead plain gksu, allowing users to automatically authenticate when launching the aircraft-manager (if this is, of course, the behavior desired by user). See http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/PolicyKit/ for more details.

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Nicola Ferralis (feranick) wrote :

Confirmed. This should also be applied to the wireless switch (Fn+F2).

Changed in dell-mini:
status: New → Confirmed
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Luca Ferretti (elle.uca) wrote :

It seems that HAL >= 0.5.10 provides a DBus interface called KillSwitch that allow to monitor and toggle network interfaces. This should yet use PolicyKit and it seems there is basic support to Dell laptops[1]

[1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal-commit/2008-January/004128.html

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