RE: gnome-control-center datetime problem

[John Frankish <j-frankish slb com>]

> On Fri, 2014-05-09 at 14:18 +0000, John Frankish wrote:
> > Thanks, but what would be an equivalent API I could use?
>
> Hey John,
>
> I think you should report a bug to the Linux distribution you use. If they ship
> GNOME without systemd, they are responsible for implementing the
> timedated D-Bus interface themselves (which should be relatively easy).
> timedated is a distribution-agnostic interface for changing the timezone, so it
> makes sense for GNOME to depend on it.
>
> gnome-control-center also depends on the localed D-Bus interface for the
> region panel*, and the hostnamed D-Bus interface for changing hostname in
> the Details and Sharing panel. These are all typically provided by systemd,
> and if your distribution is missing one it's likely missing the others as well.
Thanks for the reply.

Since the distro I'm using - tinycorelinux - strives to be small, lightweight and efficient, it does not use 
systemd.

I've compiled a (mostly) running gnome-3.10.x from source to see how things work and this was one of the few 
things that didn't work.

If timedate depends on systemd, then maybe this applet should not be compiled if systemd is not present?

John