[RFC] KDE4 generic timezone support

[Shaheed]

Hi all,

I've been thinking that KDE4 ought to support the idea of per-user timezones 
at least on systems which support Posix-like multi-user semantics. Thus, in 
addition to kdebase/kcontrol/clock which can conrol the system default 
timezone, it ought to be possible for each logged in user to set his own 
timeone in an unprivileged manner.

Thus, the idea would be to create something invoked from startkde's handling 
of $KDEHOME/env/*.sh, say $KDEHOME/env/timezone.sh. Thee contents would be 
set to something like:

export TZ=Europe/Paris

or whatever. Then, an unpriv'd user can muck about with this setting as 
pleased. 

If this sounds like a good idea, a logical next stop might be to 
replace explicit setting of the user's local timezone from places such as 
kdebase/kicker/applets/clock and korganizer with a setting shared across 
apps. Apps such as these might then use their timezone selection dialogues to 
define the alternate timezones of interest (if desired, this too could be 
centralised).

The central location would be kcmshell's language module, Date and Time tab.

Thoughts? Shaheed
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