Bug 445732 - Make the polkit dialog easier to understand by providing it with clearer information
Summary: Make the polkit dialog easier to understand by providing it with clearer info...
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Discover
Classification: Applications
Component: discover (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: unspecified
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen
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Keywords: usability
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Reported: 2021-11-19 02:54 UTC by Justin Zobel
Modified: 2021-11-24 19:41 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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2021-11-19 02:54 UTC, Justin Zobel
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Description Justin Zobel 2021-11-19 02:54:56 UTC
Created attachment 143719 [details]
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See screenshot attached.

Instead of /tmp/mozilla* if we could see that it's in a Firefox temp directory, we could therefore determine that it's a "Firefox Download" and use that instead, nicer for user than some random tmp dir that most users won't even understand.

Second, is the app name. It shows the org.kde.Tok name, the pretty name could potentially be extracted from the .flatpak file and displayed instead.

If both were implemented it could show something along the lines of "Authentication is required to install Tok from Firefox Downloads."
Comment 1 Aleix Pol 2021-11-24 02:05:45 UTC
This is coming from flatpak upstream, can you please report there? Or maybe suggest a patch?

https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/blob/master/system-helper/org.freedesktop.Flatpak.policy.in#L127

I doubt we'll get to be able to call it a "Firefox Download" though.