Summary: | Gnome clock gives cryptic error message | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | M. Creidieki Crouch <creidieki+gentoobugs> |
Component: | [OLD] GNOME | Assignee: | Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome> |
Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | ||
Severity: | trivial | CC: | blair04 |
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
M. Creidieki Crouch
2003-10-21 22:32:03 UTC
you could probably look at the sources to find out what it wants to use. This can be controlled by a key in gconf. In the Configuration editor take a look at /apps/panel/profiles/default/applet_n/prefs . applet_n refers to one of the numbered applet folders, this will vary depending on what you running. The key you are looking for is 'config_tool.' Unfortunately, this key is unset by default and I can't find a default gnome tool that handles time adjustment. Doug is right. You can customize the tool to adjust date/time on your system via gconf keys. The applet itself tries to look for two different tools if the gconf value is not available: redhat-config-date and time-admin. If everything fails, the applet displays the `cryptic' message you mention. But this is not a real issue; apparently, the software authors encourage that each distro define whatever tool they want for this. Have a look at: http://bugs.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123448 Now, I don't really think this is worth adding a new RDEPEND to gnome-panel, and there isn't a suitable tool for this in the tree at the moment. However, you could try installing gnome-system-tools, which comes with the `time-admin' tool (although there's no ebuild for it yet --see bug #17766), and see how it works for you. Of course, any ideas regarding all this would be very welcome. Thanks. |