On 05/01/11 12:34, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: > Le mercredi 05 janvier 2011 à 07:49 +0000, 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 laptops. :-p
Well, then the easy answer is to do neither. > Anyway, it's not the place to discuss the choice of automated timezone > detection: go to the gnome-control-center list if you really to want to > argue this. > 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. Me, I'll just turn it off when it appears. Then in 5 years, either it will become useful, or the distros will cause it to default to "off". -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/696115 Title: Timezone should not require superuser on laptop -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
