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

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Hi,

Le samedi 28 janvier 2012, à 12:54 -0500, Colin Walters a écrit :
> 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

For reference, I'm not surprised it went away; I'm surprised it went
away now, without any announcement.

[...]

> 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?

I've already mentioned earlier I'm fine with plans to use systemd, my
main worry being a smooth transition.

For reference, one issue people might have with this change, even for
people extracting the code of timedated from systemd, is that querying
the state of ntp and enabling/disabling ntp requires systemd -- since
it's all done via dbus methods of the systemd service.

Now, I do believe that's actually a good thing since it means there's no
need for custom code for each distro. And I'm fine with it for openSUSE:
that's something I'm ready to lose for users not booting with systemd
(even better if g-c-c doesn't show the ntp toggle when this happens).

Cheers,

Vincent

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