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

[Colin Walters <walters verbum org>]

On Sat, 2012-01-28 at 17:34 +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote:

> I don't think Vincent was surprised, or he really shouldn't have been:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654970#c2
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654970#c3
> 
> Michael didn't comment on this issue in this thread. Sebastien is CC:ed
> on gnome-settings-daemon bugs.

Okay, well let's just say as a general rule - before deleting code like
this, run git log and add the affected people to CC?   That's how it
works in Linux kernel land.

> It's also about removing 3k lines of code that lived in the wrong place
> in the stack for all these years (it was in gnome-panel before). And
> about fixing the date & time panel to stop using synchronous APIs.

Yeah, I don't mean to belittle the work, and like I said before, in the
big picture I think it's great.  I am obviously one of the bigger
proponents of deeper GNOME+Linux integration, because ultimately I think
that's the only way to create an experience that doesn't totally suck
because it's filled with crappy abstraction layers and unintegrated
parts.

But we should try as hard as possible to get from here to there while
*not* regressing things for other people, because GNOME is a shared
pool.

Anyways I don't think we're in violent disagreement here, and what I
want to focus on is concrete actions.  Vincent, Michael, Milan, as the
people who actually contributed code here - are you guys OK with the
DBus backend work and/or future plans to use systemd?