Excerpts from Paul Fox's message of Sun Mar 13 13:04:30 +0100 2011: > > Can you point me at that old code, please? (we currently use gconf [1], > > so Sugar is decoupled from the rest of the system w.r.t. time zone).
> do you know why this is/was done? is it simply a matter of not > wanting the sugar user to do root-like things? All the history I could find was that using gconf for storing the time zone was introduced in "Use gconf for the profile" [1] and the control panel section that used the profile to modify the time zone was added in "Landed the graphical frontend for the control panel" [2]. The corresponding profile code is in "Add control panel items to profile" [3]. There was no indication of Sugar setting the system-wide time zone. > p.s. either my mailer did something very odd, or your message had a > surprising set of addressees. intentional? > cc: c.sc...@flatty.sascha.silbe.org, Ananian <csc...@laptop.org>, > a.sm...@flatty.sascha.silbe.org, > OLPC Devel <devel@lists.laptop.org>, > rich...@flatty.sascha.silbe.org, rich...@laptop.org Thanks for the heads-up. With every "new" MUA I seem to hit the same issue of real names containing periods (".") [4,5] again. According to the RFC822 / RFC2822 / RFC5322 rules these need to be quoted (periods are not part of the "atom" production rule). Some MUAs don't quote them and some MTAs (most notably nullmailer) start a new list component when they hit an unquoted period in the display-name part of the mailbox-list production rule. :-/ Sascha [1] http://git.sugarlabs.org/sugar/mainline/commit/8361ca82ae89ce8b038a4faa8274b2b88cfe81a6 [2] http://git.sugarlabs.org/sugar/mainline/commit/9ac7db79d130893116bf3fc063b867f9c8cfcf4e [3] http://git.sugarlabs.org/sugar-toolkit/mainline/commit/4bdddfd20d8cb3f76ff03ab196dd5229f166bd75 [4] http://bugs.debian.org/142929 [5] http://lists.untroubled.org/?list=nullmailer&cmd=threadindex&month=200204&threadid=gaglkmijhgnbgcihnepi -- http://sascha.silbe.org/ http://www.infra-silbe.de/
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