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Polkit Support in KIO

Running Qt GUI applications as root is dangerous. Some KDE applications are disabling being executed as root. For example, the next versions of Dolphin and Kate will show an error message and exit when started with root privileges. Polkit is the library made specifically to solve such problems. It is the standard framework used by Linux desktops to grant privileged actions to unprivileged processes. The goal of this project is to add Polkit support in KIO, the library used by KDE applications to manipulate the filesystem.

Work Report

Code

Phabricator task : https://phabricator.kde.org/T6561
KIO clone : https://cgit.kde.org/scratch/chinmoyr/kio-polkit-support.git

Blog Posts

Proposal

GSOC Proposal

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 == Work Report ==
+==Code==
 * Phabricator task : https://phabricator.kde.org/T6561
-   It lists all the necessary revisions and also provides a brief explanation of my approach.
 * KIO clone : https://cgit.kde.org/scratch/chinmoyr/kio-polkit-support.git
-   This clone has all the changes listed in the phabricator task.
 == Blog Posts ==