On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 17:49 -0500, Ryan Lortie wrote: > hi Bastien, > > On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 22:38 +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > commit 27fa171efe4179c0a42ec79e0dc501077f042a08 > > Author: Bastien Nocera <had...@hadess.net> > > Date: Thu Jan 19 22:33:21 2012 +0000 > > > > datetime: Remove datetime D-Bus mechanism > > > > Now that gnome-control-center uses systemd's date & time mechanism[1], > > we don't need to ship our own mechanism for that purpose. This also > > removes the last user of dbus-glib in gnome-settings-daemon [2].
I think systemd is awesome; however, I think you (and others) are being a bit too cavalier about deleting code. While it's almost certainly true (looking at the git log) that you are one of the dominant recent contributors to gnome-settings-daemon, there are other people involved in GNOME who for one reason or another aren't going to use systemd, and it's a bit disrespectful to just delete the code. >From their perspective, it is a regression - before, they could change the time. After, they can't. And in the picture, we need to clamp down on these kinds of regressions. That doesn't mean we can't ever take a step backwards - for sufficiently large steps forward. But in this case we're just shuffling around where the code for setting time lives. So concretely - how about bringing back the old code and making it conditionally compile under a --enable-date-time-backend flag? If you want, I can do a patch. -Colin, with his GNOME release team hat on _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list