That's why I can't understand Carlos's "That doesn't work for all desktops". What does he mean? Simple: that I'm not using KDE. I get the applet from my desktop, of course, not the kde applet. Fair enough. What it is wanted is a solution to automatically disable all updater applets for all users - except those that the administrator decides
On Thursday, 2010-10-14 at 13:30 +0100, Tejas Guruswamy wrote: that they get it. Each updater application is independent; you'll just have to figure out a solution for each one individually. At least you know how to do it for kupdateapplet now. As the common part is the "packagekitd" daemon, I tried making it runable only by root, but that does not work. PackageKit is simply an abstraction layer to make writing cross-distro
On 14/10/10 14:31, Carlos E. R. wrote: package managers easier, it's not specific to update applets. Disabling it only means that any packagekit-based application will still run as a user, but be unable to actually do any package management tasks. It'll probably just lead to more errors.
Instead, it has to be done adjusting policy kit, but this is not documented or I have no idea where. PolicyKit will help you make the update applets work for other users by granting them extra permissions, but it won't help you disable the update applets from starting in the first place. Sorry for the misdirection :) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" at Telcontar) Regards, Tejas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org