One PolKit window per bulk action, not item

When you have a lot of flatpak repositories like I do, changing the order of multiple of them invokes at least one window per moved item. That means that if I reorder 6 repositories, 6 windows appear requesting authentication.

This seems silly. With enough repositories, it would become unmanageable. Surely we should have one auth window per bulk action, not item changed?

Considering that sudo generally caches the password supplied for the first item when invoked manually by the user via the command-line, PolKit should do the same, surely?

Polkit can indeed cache the password for a period of time. This is configurable, and IIRC your. Distro may or may not set it up that way by default.

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