Fedora 16 XFCE - Little annoyance wrt clock

Christoph Wickert christoph.wickert at googlemail.com
Thu Mar 22 12:09:57 CET 2012


Am Donnerstag, den 22.03.2012, 11:07 +0100 schrieb Stephan Arts:
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Christoph Wickert
> <christoph.wickert at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, den 21.03.2012, 16:45 -0300 schrieb Fernando Cassia:
> >>
> >> Should "Adjust system clock" be an option of the clock
> >> widget/panel/whatever?
> >
> > Yes and no: ;)
> > No, There should not be one because xfce4-panel does not provide this
> > functionality.
> > Yes, it would be nice to have it.
> >
> >> It´d help usablity inmensely, IMHO. Should I fire a request for
> >> enhancement?
> >
> > That would require PolicyKit to handle the permissions. This means it
> > will not come before Xfce 4.12 because it is not allowed to add new
> > dependencies now.
> >
> > Another problem I see is that configuring timezones is distro-specific.
> > On Fedora for example it is /etc/sysconfig/clock while it
> > is /etc/timezone on Debian.
> 
> So, basically you want a hook on policykit and a document describing
> 'HOW TO MAKE IT WORK' of packagers?

Not sure I understand you correctly - if at all.

Regards,
Christoph




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