[Hardy] The clock applet no longer uses the more powerful time-admin to change the time

I read the comments on the duplicate of this bug, and I'm disappointed that the developers decided to remove functionality from the applet's settings. Frankly, the new time-setting tool accessible from the panel applet is badly designed and limited in functionality. I much prefer the looks and capabilities of time-admin, and I'm disappointed that it's been moved from the obvious location of the clock's context-menu to the Admin menu. Most computers are connected to the Internet, and thus would benefit from receiving the time automatically from an NTP server, but this functionality is now harder to find. In addition, changing the timezone is now more difficult.
Why has the functionality been duplicated? It would make more sense to just get rid of the new tool and simply use the older, better one, rather than giving preferential placement to the new, inferior one.

thanks for the report.

Yes, I think this sucks.

In Windows I have a useful button called "Update Now" with updates the time by synchronize with a time server.

This is still available from System>Administration>Time and Date -- it
looks like a little refresh button. The problem I have is that
right-clicking on the clock no longer allows the user to open the Time
and Date Settings tool, just an inferior built-in one.
On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 02:16 +0000, Fred wrote:

> Yes, I think this sucks.
>
> In Windows I have a useful button called "Update Now" with updates the
> time by synchronize with a time server.
>

Caleb,
Thanks you're right, I found that refresh button now.

In Clock 2.22.0, I cant select "Adjust Date & Time", nothing happens.
I can select "Preferences" though, when I click on the "Time Settings" button, nothing happens.

those comments doesn't help to get the bug fixed, the bug is confirmed so if you're not providing more information or a patch to get this fixed, please do not submit comments just because isn't fixed, it create a lot of extra work due to the quantity of bugs we have to deal with daily, thanks for your understanding.

Pedro,
Fred asked a question about where he could find a particular feature, and I helped him by telling him where it was.

Confirming

Here is a patch to use time-admin.

I also changed "Time Settings" in the preferences dialog to "Adjust Date & Time" to match the entry in the panel context menu.

Sebastien, may you take a look to it ?

thank you for your work on that, is there any reason why you changed the menu label? that's going to break translations

the strings is already translated so that's not breaking translations, the upstream label is better for a button though, also using the upstream dialog when using this button and changing the context menu action could make sense

I agree that the upstream label is a better choice, but the item in the context menu should be changed as well.

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-panel - 1:2.22.0-0ubuntu3

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gnome-panel (1:2.22.0-0ubuntu3) hardy; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/18_clock_capplet_use_time_admin.patch:
    - use time-admin to configure time rather than the new policykit dialog,
      thanks Sebastian Urban for working on the change (lp: #185232)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:51:53 +0200