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).
--
Dr. Gerald Pfeifer