systemd and gnome-control-center

[Eugen Wissner]

Hi,

I'm one of maintainers of GNOME desktop for Slackware Linux (
www.droplinegnome.org). Slackware like Debian doesn't use systemd needed by
some gnome applications as its default initialization system. For now
Control Center uses systemd to set system time. I saw that debian uses
datetime function from gnome 3.2 (patched gnome-control-center and
gnome-settings-daemon reverted changes since 3.2). For this purpose I wrote
a program which implements timedate interface from systemd what does it
possible to set Time/Date in Gnome Control Center without systemd. This
program (slack-timedate, http://dl.flevum.de/slack-timedate/) isn't just a
snippet from systemd but is written using GLib and GDBus, it does just the
same thing as timedate from systemd. I intend to work further on
slack-timedate and to add new functionality if other parts of gnome become
dependent on systemd. I thought that I could extend my program to get it
working also for Debian. What do you think about it?

Eugene Wissner
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