Can’t get PolicyKit’s ObtainAuthorization() to work.
gnome-lirc-properties, which I just mentioned needs to edit /etc/lirc/lircd.conf, which requires sudo/root access. Various APIs exist to get temporary sudo/root access but everyone now seems to agree that the new PolicyKit system is the way to go. I’d like to link to a website for it. All the system administration [...]

We at Openismus will be working on a little GUI control panel to configure remote controls, so you can more easily, for instance, control a media-center application such as Elisa. We are doing this for Fluendo.
It should end up looking something like this and it will basically just give you a working /etc/lirc/lircd.conf file [...]

I have recently acquired a Nokia N810 Internet Tablet and a N95 8GB mobile phone. Both have GPS capability but both have quite awful maps applications. It feels like a checkbox feature – a way to list GPS as a feature on the box, but not a way to do something useful, and not something [...]