systemd and gnome-control-center

[Josselin Mouette]

Hi Eugen,

Le samedi 23 février 2013 à 12:04 +0100, Eugen Wissner a écrit :
> 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?

After the wheezy release we intend to make GNOME require systemd for
logind (the CK replacement). So there won’t be a point anymore for split
timedated.

Cheers,
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