Re: [opensuse-gnome] Timezone settings -- still not solved?

On Fri, 2014-10-31 at 15:35 -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger [10-31-14 09:05]:

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On Thu, 2014-10-30 at 19:44 +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:

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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 :^)

Don't take it out of context. GNOME does take the TZ from the system.. BUT gnome-control-center also allows you to configure your timezone... and for THIS action, at the moment, you require the root password, DESPITE the polkit privileges being ser that a regular user can set the timezone. The patch in question does only allow a regular user to perform what he's allowed to do anyway... nothing more, nothing less. Dominique -- Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+owner@opensuse.org