Re: [gnome-settings-daemon] datetime: Remove datetime D-Bus mechanism

[Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek gentoo org>]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 10:49 PM, Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com> wrote:
> On 20 January 2012 17:12, Michael Biebl <mbiebl gmail com> wrote:
>> It's unfortunately not as simple as that as far as Debian is concerned
>> or any other non-Linux distro. systemd is Linux-only. The
>> aforementioned components timedated, hostnamed and localed can't be
>> compiled on non-Linux systems.
>
> this hasn't changed: non-Linux systems were not supported before
> either. actually using, by a neutral DBus interface instead of ad hoc
> code for each platform, it may be easier to get support on other
> platforms without requiring to patch g-c-c directly.
>

For those finding it hard to understand how this is better than before:

Try to think of it as a freedesktop standard for time and date (like
org.fdo.Notifications). It even uses the same DBus namespace! Once a
provider is implemented (by porting timedated or whatever) it can be
reused everywhere.

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~Nirbheek Chauhan

Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team