[Bug 1008344] Re: checks "admin" group membership instead of querying polkit

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Title:
  checks "admin" group membership instead of querying polkit

Status in PolicyKit:
  Confirmed
Status in “language-selector” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in “language-selector” source package in Trusty:
  New

Bug description:
  trusty SRU request
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  [Impact]
  The language-selector UI distinguishes between admin and standard users in such a way that certain buttons for doing things which require admin privileges are greyed out for standard users. This bug report describes an authorization setup where this design is inconvenient. It's reasonable to change the design and make the buttons sensitive for all users.

  [Test Case]
  If you log in into a standard user account and open gnome-language-selector, you'll see that certain buttons are greyed out. If you install the proposed package, those buttons will be sensitive, and you'll be able to change system wide settings provided that you enter an admin password. 

  [Regression Potential]
  When you start gnome-language-selector as a standard user, the UI takes a few seconds longer time than before to show up. This is intentional and needed for the install/remove feature to work.

  [Original description]
  In a new install of Ubuntu Precise, I cannot make any system-wide changes in the language selector (such as installing languages or clicking "Apply System-Wide"), only user-specific changes. All those controls for system-wide changes are greyed out, although my user does have sudo abilities and I would be able to enter the root password of the machine.

  The machine is freshly installed, but with customizations specific to
  our site, e.g. ldap authentication for users. Specifically, my user is
  an ldap user, not a local one, and there is a group in the ldap
  directory which was granted sudo capability by adding it to
  /etc/sudoers. My user is part of that group. sudo on the command line
  and gksudo work fine.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: language-selector-gnome 0.79
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.39-generic 3.2.16
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu8
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Jun  4 08:20:04 2012
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US:
   TERM=screen-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: language-selector
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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