Bug 438899 - intlclock doesn't handle NTP, timezone is somewhat odd
Summary: intlclock doesn't handle NTP, timezone is somewhat odd
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-applets
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
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Assignee: Ray Strode [halfline]
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-03-25 21:05 UTC by Bill Nottingham
Modified: 2014-03-17 03:13 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2009-07-14 16:16:50 UTC
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Description Bill Nottingham 2008-03-25 21:05:44 UTC
Description of problem:

Right now, we have both system-config-date and intlclock in the default desktop
install. That's bad.

The two things in s-c-date that are missing in intlclock:
- NTP support
- Timezone isn't as obvious - it's not referenced under the 'Adjust Date and
Time' choice

With those addressed (in some way), we can remove s-c-date from the default
install. Yay for less duplication!

(We could pre-emptively remove s-c-date, I suppose.)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

gnome-panel-2.22.0-4.fc9

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2008-03-26 00:30:03 UTC
Of course, anaconda's timezone widgets are just used straight from
system-config-date.  So removing it would be bad from that point of view.

Comment 2 Matthias Clasen 2008-03-26 16:17:56 UTC
Its not bad bad, just a little bit of redundancy. 

But I agree that it would be good if we could get to the point where s-c-d is
deemed unnecessary. 

From my perspective, NTP should just be on by default, and should be handled by
nm-dispatcher. 

Bill, for the timezone, what would you want to do in the "Time settings" dialog
? I could add some text explaining that you should use the main ui to select a
different timezone. I'm also talking to geoclue upstream to get automatic
location updates.

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2008-03-26 16:20:58 UTC
I forgot, there's also system-clock-is-UTC-or-localtime that s-c-d handles.
Which is a pain to try and expose, but that's Windows breaking things for you.

I wonder if a 'Change timezone...' button that pops the location dialog would
work? Of course, this is all 2.24, things at this point.

Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 06:50:56 UTC
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA.
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Comment 6 Bug Zapper 2009-07-14 16:16:50 UTC
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