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On Sunday 17 June 2007, Jonathan Marten wrote:
> "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo@kde.org> writes:
> > then may i suggest:
> >
> > a) someone steps up and fixes kcontrol in trunk
>
> To encourage that, would someone who knows what is required be able to
> post a quick summary of what needs to be ported and how the control

the kcm's have been moved out of the deprecated applnk directory and into=20
services/. for kcontrol to be functional, it needs to load the list of kcms=
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via KServiceTrader from this new location.

> for KControl and has made some architecture decisions, because for
> example there is a comment "root KCMs are gone", but I'm otherwise not
> sure where the effort is needed...

yes, the goal is to get rid of that fugly "Administrator Mode" button. some=
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guys at Mandriva (helio is heading that up) are actively investigating usin=
g=20
policykit to allow changes to be published from the gui run as the regular=
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joe user. i think it'll be very slick stuff once implemented.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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