Submitted by David Zeuthen (Red Hat) who wrote and maintains the HAL freedesktop library has announced a new Policy Kit library to manage administrative policies and privileges in a Linux desktop in a desktop neutral, uniform and centralised manner. More about this on his blog.
Another hurdle in the path of widespread desktop adoption, truly God’s work happening there.
It is truly surprising how little thought went into those run-a-gui-as-root utilities.