[kde-linux] Time Zone settings etc.

[Kevin Krammer]

On Tuesday, 2010-02-23, David Jarvie wrote:
> 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.

Ah, thanks David.

Dario: in case this still applies, would it be possible for you to move the 
tag to a revision that fulfills the requirements (or does one of the admins 
have to do this)?

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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