Polkit-qt-1 - Qt wrapper around polkit-1

Overview

Note

Please note that if you're developing an application on the KDE Development Platform and not just with Qt, you might want to use KAuth (kdelibs/core/auth)

polkit-qt-1 aims to make it easy for Qt developers to take advantage of polkit API. It is a convenience wrapper around QAction and QAbstractButton that lets you integrate those two components easily with polkit.

polkit-qt-1 is not a direct replacement of polkit-qt: it is based on polkit-1, which is not backwards compatible in any way with Policykit <= 0.9, which was the backend of polkit-qt. You are encouraged to port polkit-qt applications to polkit-qt or KAuth, if based on the KDE Development Platform, since PolicyKit <= 0.9 is no longer maintained.

polkit-qt-1 is split in three libraries: polkit-qt-core-1, polkit-qt-gui-1 and polkit-qt-agent-1

polkit-qt-core-1 lets you control actions and authentication without a GUI, with some very simple functions. It also lets you retrieve and control useful informations on the polkit authority. You will be mostly interested in the Authority class.

polkit-qt-gui-1 lets you easily associate GUI items with polkit actions. Through some simple wrapper classes you are able to associate QAction and QAbstractButton to a polkit action, and get their properties changed accordingly to polkit's result. It includes the classes Action, ActionButton and ActionButtons

polkit-qt-agent-1 lets you write your own polkit authentication agents in a very simple way.

• A sample usage of polkit-qt-1 can be found in Polkit-qt-1 usage example
• Alphabetical Class List
• Class Hierarchy