Fedora 16 XFCE - Little annoyance wrt clock

[Mike Massonnet]

Le 22 mars 2012 14:08, "Stephan Arts" <stephan at xfce.org> a écrit :
>
> 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

I believe this is intended to be fixed with the proposition of a
freedesktop spec for system settings. Ali once intended to write frontends
for thèse kind of settings.

After a quick search it should be systemd (and for this case timedated).

My 2 cents,
Mike
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