Le mercredi 05 janvier 2011 à 07:49 +, gpk a écrit :
Essentially, the trade-off is a minor convenience 99.999% of the time,
versus a modest (or major) disaster 0.001% of the time.
That's also exactly how I'd describe the idea of allowing all users to set
timezone without authentication on
On 05/01/11 12:34, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:
Le mercredi 05 janvier 2011 à 07:49 +, gpk a écrit :
Essentially, the trade-off is a minor convenience 99.999% of the time,
versus a modest (or major) disaster 0.001% of the time.
That's also exactly how I'd describe the idea of allowing all
Le mercredi 05 janvier 2011 à 20:28 +, gpk a écrit :
No thanks. People love to add features. You can't stop someone who
has a pet idea that they haven't
thought through very carefully.They just produce self-justifying
reasons and don't listen.
That's an idea that came from
Actually, on consideration, I don't think that automatic detection of
the timezone
is a viable solution.It suffers from all kinds of potential problems
like
What does it do if it's connected to a VPN?. If I connect via VPN
to my
office in the UK when I'm in France, I'd get the
Le mardi 04 janvier 2011 à 15:51 +, gpk a écrit :
Actually, on consideration, I don't think that automatic detection of
the timezone
is a viable solution.It suffers from all kinds of potential problems
like
What does it do if it's connected to a VPN?. If I connect via VPN
to
On 04/01/11 20:52, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:
Le mardi 04 janvier 2011 à 15:51 +, gpk a écrit :
Actually, on consideration, I don't think that automatic detection of
the timezone is a viable solution.It suffers from all kinds of potential
problems
like What does it do if it's
Everybody shouldn't be allowed to set the system timezone by default, as
it affects all users on the system. If you don't have administrator
rights on your laptop, you can ask the administrator to grant you the
rights for the org.gnome.clock.mechanism.settimezone PolicyKit action,
but this
Oh, that's silly!
It's a laptop, darn it!The other users will (almost certainly) be on
the console, and they'll be in the same time zone your are in. (Unless
they have *very* long arms.)
What you are proposing is not the normal use case for a laptop -- you
seem to be thinking that I carry
Sorry. Let me be a bit more formal.
I suggest that laptops are either:
1) single user
in which case changing the time zone won't hurt other users,
2) physically shared amongst several people
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Sorry. Let me be a bit more formal.
I suggest that laptops are either:
1) single user
* in which case changing the time zone won't hurt other users,
or
2) physically shared amongst several people
* in which case, they are in the same time zone, and if one user sets the
zone, that is a
the changes you are requesting aren't really a bug and require more
discussion, which should be done on an appropriate mailing list or
forum. http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/mailinglists might be a
good start for determining which mailing list to use.
As stated above, the answer for an
We can't change PolicyKit permissions depending on whether the system is
a laptop or not. So we'd have to make the change for all systems, which
is not necessarily what people expect. And even laptops can be used e.g.
in kiosks or schools, where you don't want people to play with system
settings.
Alan , we dont assign bugs to the team. Usually bug is assigned to folks
*fixing* the bug, not to folks triaging the bug.
for more info : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Assignment
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OK.I agree it would not make sense as the desktop default.
On 01/01/11 14:53, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:
We can't change PolicyKit permissions depending on whether the system is
a laptop or not. So we'd have to make the change for all systems, which
is not necessarily what people expect.
Yes, I figured as much.
I didn't intend to do that, but then I couldn't figure out how to un-assign
it.
Sorry, still learning how the bugtracker works.
If I see a bug that I think I can help with, is it ok for me to leave
comments in the bugtracker?
On this particular bug, I only brought it up
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Timezone should not require superuser on laptop
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