On 2/29/2012 at 04:23 AM, in message <alpine.LNX.2.00.1202282308210.23429@gerinyyl.fvgr>, Gerald Pfeifer <gp@suse.com> wrote: Hi there,
Linus vocally complained about this today at https://plus.google.com/u/0/102150693225130002912/posts/1vyfmNCYpi5 and I verified that running GNOME on openSUSE 12.1, all updates applied, I do need to provide the root password to change the timezone or add a printer.
That is a major usability issue for personas "Daniela" and "significant other", which means it has real life impact on both Linus and myself. :-)
Surprisingly enough, I did not find existing Bugzilla entries, but perhaps those were (incorrectly) closed earlier and I missed them therefore?
In any case, I filed
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=749451 Adding a new printer via system-config-printer requires root password
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=749453 Changing the timezone via world clock requires root password
Any chance we can get these two resolved quickly?
Thanks! Gerald
PS: If I may ask for one favor, let's stay focused on meeting our users' needs rather than flailing on flames (some aspects of which were just inappropriate).
Disclaimer: Have not used openSUSE for the past two months (due to dayjob requirements) so my data may be obsolete/wrong (not verified) When the time is stored in UTC in the system (yast), we can change the timezone as a non-root user, otherwise we can't (or that is how I remember it). Windows does not store time in UTC and so in multi-boot machines, changing timezone is not possible, as a normal user. This is how I remember this. But I may be wrong and could not verify now. Just check once if time is stored in UTC in yast and then try to see if you can change the timezone. Sankar http://psankar.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+owner@opensuse.org