Re: time/date/timezone capplet

[William Jon McCann <mccannwj pha jhu edu>]

Hello,

Maciej Katafiasz wrote:
> Dnia 18-10-2004, pon o godzinie 10:55 -0400, William Jon McCann napisał:
>
> > I wrote a time/date/timezone capplet.  It is a user oriented tool that 
> > doesn't require authentication to start - only to change settings.  The 
> > authentication system for the backends (gnome-timezone, gnome-date) is 
> > left for the vendor/sysadmin to configure.  Personally, I use consolehelper.
> >
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154085
> > http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution-hackers/2004-September/004484.html
>
> doesn't g-s-t capplet already do this?

No, it doesn't.  g-s-t are very nice tools and Carlos has done a fine 
job with them.  In fact, I've contributed to them in the past.  However, 
they are targetted for system administration.  This is an end-user tool 
that in a properly configured system would not require the root 
password.  Some other differences are:

It is written entirely in C  (ie. no perl) so that it can be used on a 
slim install and is simple to audit.  The front-end is not authenticated 
so it is simple to audit and trust.  It is authentication-schema 
agnostic.  The gnome-timezome backend doesn't hard-code vendor types, it 
looks for capabilities.  It sends dbus events.  And... it supports 
Solaris (I know you care).

Cheers,
Jon