A PolicyKit Authentication Agent is a construct used to authenticate
one or more identities. See the PolicyKit documentation for more
details on authentication agents and how PolicyKit works:
http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/polkit/
Since gjs does not support subclassing a GObject class from Javascript
code, we bring in a native class to bridge the VFuncs to GObject
signals. Additionally, this native class also queues up authentication
requests so the user of the native class only has to deal with a
single outstanding request at any one time.
The file js/ui/polkitAuthenticationAgent.js introduces a singleton
that listens for authentication requests via the native class. This
singleton uses the PolkitAgent machinery to do the actual heavy-weight
lifting required for authentication (essentially a PAM conversation).
We currently don't allow the user to pick the identity to be
authenticated.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=642886
Signed-off-by: David Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com>
The official GNOME moduleset builds evolution and e-d-s against
GTK+-3, so libedataserverui-1.2 is no longer part of the release.
As GNOME Shell can actually be build with either version, prefer
libedataserverui-3.0 if it is available and allow falling back
to 1.2. if it isn't.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=641085
Add an entry in config.js.in for PACKAGE_VERSION and GJS_VERSION,
to be used by the notification daemon and in the future by the
extension system.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=639255
Mutter no longer optionally builds with GTK+-2.0, so we don't
need to check for it. And the specific form of the check broke
with recent changes to the naming of libraries for GTK+.
In order to take advantage of clipped redraws (only redraw the
parts that actually changed), we have to inform clutter about
our paint_volume by implementing the get_paint_volume virtual
method.
As this feature had been added in in clutter 1.5.x we now require
that.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=630932
We were going to great effort to include the normal directories in the
GJS search path and the code to to do this broke recently when
jsdir and jsnativedir were moved to gjs-internals-1.0.pc. However, it
was actually unnecessary since the standard directories are appended
to the default path.
(We continue to use a GNOME_SHELL_JS envvar separate from GJS_PATH
for the Shell to enable the somewhat unlikely case where someone wants
to invoke the shell specifying a GJS_PATH.)
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=635367
ST makes use of GTK+ for input methods and for icon themes; therefore
we have need to initialize GTK+ in order to test these parts of Clutter.
Instead of LD_PRELOADING our module, use a separately compiled executable
that links to the UI components in GNOME Shell, initializes Clutter and
GTK+ and hooks them together.
Getting all the symbols from St and the GUI components exported for
use via GJS requires a bit of contortion: we need to actually link the
St convenience library into a shared library and link the executable
to that since there is no way with libtool to take a convenience library
and put all its symbols into an executable --whole-archive style.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=633657
Gjs changed to separate the "basic" API from "embedder" API. Unfortunately
due to our use of the importer API and a few other bits, we need to use
the "module" one. In the future I plan to extend the core API to
support this use case.
Add volume control indicator which uses API from gnome-volume-control
to interact with PulseAudio and shows both input and output volumes.
Also adds a small wrapper around libcanberra in ShellGlobal, used by the
volume indicator to provide auditive feedback.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=629455
The library is introspected, and should not require using
Pulseaudio directly.
With help from Giovanni Campagna <scampa.giovanni@gmail.com>
(introspection annotations, build fixes)
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=629455
If mutter was compiled with GTK+-2.0, the build will fail with a
rather cryptic message - better fail early during configure with
a proper error message.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=623889
Use GSettings for all Shell configuration. GConf is kept to read
configuration from external programs (Metacity, Nautilus and Magnifier),
but ShellGConf is removed because it's mostly useless for the few calls
we still have. Also get rid of unused GConf code in ShellAppSystem.
A basic GConf schema is still used to override Metacity defaults and
configure Magnifier in a system-wide fashion. GConf is also used as
GSettings backend via the GSETTINGS_BACKEND environment variable.
All of this will be removed when these programs have been ported
to GSettings and able to use dconf.
GLib 2.25.9 is required. Schemas are converted to the new XML format,
and compiled at build time in data/ so that the Shell can be run from
the source tree. This also requires setting the GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR
environment variable both when running installed or from source tree,
in src/gnome-shell.in and src/gnome-shell-clock-preferences.in.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=617917
