Re: RFC: hiding the new timezone feature in the clock applet for 2.20

[Calvin Gaisford <cgaisford novell com>]

On Aug 27, 2007, at 5:26 AM, Vincent Untz wrote:

> Le lundi 20 août 2007, à 13:02 -0400, Ray Strode a écrit :
> > Hi,
> > > Since I didn't have time to fix a few things for the clock applet  
> > > for
> > > 2.20, and I don't think anybody did it either, I think this  
> > > feature is
> > > not ready to be used by all our users for 2.20: the UI is clearly  
> > > far
> > > from being optimal, and it's also a bit slow for reasons I've not
> > > investigated.
> > >
> > > I'd like to remove the UI bits from the clock pref dialog that  
> > > let the
> > > user enable this feature. People could still enable it via a  
> > > gconf key,
> > > though.
> >
> > Seems reasonable enough.  After that, maybe we can get Novell's
> > prettier map/clock graphics integrated into it?
>
> It might make sense, yes.
>
> I would have loved to know about Novell's version before I rewrote
> the entire patch that was sitting in bugzilla for quite some time to
> make it sane. This was a significant work. I learnt about Novell's
> version too late and I wouldn't say it was a nice surprise for me.
>
> May I request that such changes made for a distribution are at least
> made known to upstream?
>
> (and this is not just about Novell, really)

Not having seen this, I had a conversation with Vincent and we agreed  
the best way to get Novell's International Clock upstream is to merge  
it in with the current clock applet.  I recently became the  
maintainer of Novell's clock so I'll be working on getting the UI  
moved on top of the the current clock applet post 2.20.

-Calvin