Fedora 16 XFCE - Little annoyance wrt clock

[Stephan Arts]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Christoph Wickert
<christoph.wickert at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Well, I meant, you might want a way to configure the method of
configuring the timezone.

So the authentication-mechanism, using policykit, is in the plugin...
but the method used for configuring the timezone can be changed
relatively easy.

Regards,

Stephan