We are going to land polkit 1.0 in F12 soon. This is going to require changes to polkit using applications. Thankfully, mostly simplifications. See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PolicyKitOne
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PK 1.0 port should just be done on NM & applet master branch (ie, NM 0.8). I don't think it makes a lot of sense to port NM 0.7.x, especially because we'd have to either have a lot of #ifdefs, or a bunch of compat code.
Is NM 0.8 going to happen for F12 ?
That's my plan...
Here is a very simple-minded patch for NM
Created attachment 346344 [details] patch
Merged to master of both NM and the applet as of: 79489be3b5e6d2c60b401b5265fa37093553e871 (nm) eb452a735625fd9e5c0b004be799a5949952a984 (applet)
Long since fixed.