[kde-linux] Time Zone settings etc.

[David Jarvie]

On Tue, February 23, 2010 4:09 pm, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> Hi Edgar,
>
> On Tuesday, 2010-02-23, Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am working with KDE-4.4.0, self compiled ( "Scratch" ).
>> Well, I need to change eg. the timezone, but "system
>> settings" does not allow me to change them: "you are not
>> allowed to save the configuration".
>>
>> Help: what shall I do to recover administrator rights ?  Even
>> using "kdesu systemsettings" I am not allowed to do
>> anything  :-(
>> That is a little too much safety in a closed shop.
>
> I am on KDE SC 4.3.4 from Debian packages so this is just a guess based on
> the
> release annoucement of KDE SC 4.4.
>
> Acquiring elevated priviledges is now handled through KAuth which in turn
> performs priviledged actions through policykit or polkit (always forget
> which
> one is the current one and which one the future one).
>
> Maybe one of these is missing in your build.

If you used the kdesupport-for-4.4 tag from SVN, it contains too old a
version of polkit-qt and polkit-qt-1 - you need to use the versions from
kdesupport in SVN trunk.

-- 
David Jarvie.
KDE developer.
KAlarm author - http://www.astrojar.org.uk/kalarm