[bug#47870] [PATCH 1/2] gnu: polkit-gnome: Add autostart .desktop file.

[Brendan Tildesley]

> On 04/18/2021 4:47 PM Leo Prikler <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at> wrote:
> 
>  
> Hi Brendan,
> 
[...]
> Instead of sourcing the desktop file from a really obscure location,
> would it be possible to express this in terms of `make-desktop-entry-
> file'?  This also has the added advantage, that it could be inlined
> into the phase.

I did this because the file has many translations, so it would be a lot
of lines: 
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/archlinux/svntogit-community/packages/polkit-gnome/trunk/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1.desktop
I was just trying to source it so translations weren't duplicated.

[...]
> > +PolicyKit-gnome is no longer used in GNOME but has become the
> > default agent
> > +for XFCE.")
> Is that so?  Even if this holds for GNOME 40, it's not true for Guix'
> GNOME until wip-gnome is merged, or does 3.34 already use something
> else?
It's much older than that. I think it was used for Gnome 2 and long since 
discarded. The release is years old and the repo untouched for 3 years.

On second thought perhaps another option is just to use the MATE polkit
agent instead? I tested it for changing network manager and it worked
just the same, only the GUI looks slightly different. I was searching
 What do you think?