* Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger <[email protected]> [10-31-14 09:05]: > On Thu, 2014-10-30 at 19:44 +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > > I just got reminded that even with the lastest Factory bits, soon > > to be openSUSE 13.2, I need to enter my root credentials to change > > the timezone. > > > > This is very disappointing and does not serve us nor our users well. > > > > I understand this has been addressed for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12. > > Wyh is openSUSE more paranoid by default than the Enterprise line?? > > > > Gerald > > Hi Gerald, > > Thanks for the pointer... > Indeed, I see this was fixed on SLE12: > > Fri Sep 5 22:52:01 UTC 2014 - <no-public-blame> > > - Add gnome-control-center-bnc862415-timezone.patch > Allow changing timezone without root privs. > > But this patch was never submitted to the openSUSE community and as a > result is not available in the openSUSE packages. > > Other patches I have in openSUSE though that address crashes are missing > in SLE12... oh well (well, that crash fix is not so critical for SLE, as > it only triggers on i586, which SLE12 is not supporting.. ) > > We'll probably have to find a 'smarter' way for things like that. > > I'll see if I can forward port that TZ patch into GNOME 3.14.
Why "patch into GNOME ..."? Seems this *should* be a system attribute rather than de specific. The de *should* get it's TZ from the *system*, or again one way becomes spaghetti-code :^) -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected]
