Re: [Bug 696115] Re: Timezone should not require superuser on laptop

2011-01-05 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mercredi 05 janvier 2011 à 20:28 +, gpk a écrit : > No thanks. People love to add features. You can't stop someone who > has a pet idea that they haven't > thought through very carefully.They just produce self-justifying > reasons and don't listen. That's an idea that came from des

Re: [Bug 696115] Re: Timezone should not require superuser on laptop

2011-01-05 Thread gpk
On 05/01/11 12:34, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: > Le mercredi 05 janvier 2011 à 07:49 +, gpk a écrit : >> Essentially, the trade-off is a minor convenience 99.999% of the time, >> versus a modest (or major) disaster 0.001% of the time. > That's also exactly how I'd describe the idea of allowing

Re: [Bug 696115] Re: Timezone should not require superuser on laptop

2011-01-05 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mercredi 05 janvier 2011 à 07:49 +, gpk a écrit : > Essentially, the trade-off is a minor convenience 99.999% of the time, > versus a modest (or major) disaster 0.001% of the time. That's also exactly how I'd describe the idea of allowing all users to set timezone without authentication on

Re: [Bug 696115] Re: Timezone should not require superuser on laptop

2011-01-04 Thread gpk
On 04/01/11 20:52, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: > Le mardi 04 janvier 2011 à 15:51 +, gpk a écrit : >> Actually, on consideration, I don't think that automatic detection of >> the timezone is a viable solution.It suffers from all kinds of potential >> problems >> like "What does it do if it

Re: [Bug 696115] Re: Timezone should not require superuser on laptop

2011-01-04 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mardi 04 janvier 2011 à 15:51 +, gpk a écrit : > Actually, on consideration, I don't think that automatic detection of > the timezone > is a viable solution.It suffers from all kinds of potential problems > like > "What does it do if it's connected to a VPN?". If I connect via VPN

Re: [Bug 696115] Re: Timezone should not require superuser on laptop

2011-01-04 Thread gpk
Actually, on consideration, I don't think that automatic detection of the timezone is a viable solution.It suffers from all kinds of potential problems like "What does it do if it's connected to a VPN?". If I connect via VPN to my office in the UK when I'm in France, I'd get the incorre

Re: [Bug 696115] Re: Timezone should not require superuser on laptop

2011-01-01 Thread Alan Burgess
Yes, I figured as much. I didn't intend to do that, but then I couldn't figure out how to un-assign it. Sorry, still learning how the bugtracker works. If I see a bug that I think I can help with, is it ok for me to leave comments in the bugtracker? On this particular bug, I only brought it up

Re: [Bug 696115] Re: Timezone should not require superuser on laptop

2011-01-01 Thread gpk
OK.I agree it would not make sense as the desktop default. On 01/01/11 14:53, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: > We can't change PolicyKit permissions depending on whether the system is > a laptop or not. So we'd have to make the change for all systems, which > is not necessarily what people expect.