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polkit is dumb, and never works.

so here is probably the simplest version you can have (except the first one that just ACKed every call), 97 lines of C++ and 45 lines of C, in total 142 lines of code.

it just uses kdesu to call a helper as root to send the reply, so all requests requires the user to enter the root password.

Write a simple replacement for polkit itself, it's a simple dbus API and 90% of what it provides is never used.

fix cmake to have sane paths

• C++ compiler
• Qt5 (dbus and widgets)
• kdesu

Note: these style additions are curently WIP and have weird compile settings

• -h,--help
  • menu that provides list of available Qt styles
• -s,--style
  • set style

• download from here (sorry no package repository)
• cd to folder with files in it
• run: ccmake $PWD (read up on ccmake if you want more than basic instructions)
• once in ccmake hit the c key
• set the install dir on the second line
• hit c again to clear asterisk chars
• hit g key (ccmake should close)
• run: make
• move polkit-dumb-agent-style to exec dir i.e. /usr/local/bin/
• move polkit-dumb-agent-responder-style to lib dir i.e. /usr/local/lib/polkit-dumb-agent-style/
• add exec to your autostart script or put the .desktop file in /etc/xdg/autostart (make sure no other polkit agents are running)