Review Request 122400: Add timedated support into the clock KCM as an optional dependency

[Martin Gräßlin]

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how difficult would it be to get this with runtime detection? Just because the distro compiles with systemd support doesn't mean the user uses systemd (c.f. Debian).

- Martin Gräßlin


On Feb. 3, 2015, 12:44 p.m., David Edmundson wrote:
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> (Updated Feb. 3, 2015, 12:44 p.m.)
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> Review request for Plasma.
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> Repository: plasma-desktop
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> Description
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> The current time setting helper is incredibly broken.
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> It manually tries to run a range of NTP utilities, all of which are
> deprecated.
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> We can just call timedated directly and cut out the middleman as it has
> uses polkit anyway.
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> This is currently an optional dependency, and the original helper still
> exists. It makes the code messy, but we have users to support for now.
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> Finding timedated is an cmake option rather than querying for systemd
> libs to make it easier for those deploying shims, such as BSD.
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> (code is in two commits, first abstracting the saving from the dtime class; then adding in the second save mechanism) 
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> Diffs
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>   kcms/dateandtime/CMakeLists.txt 4a987ae 
>   kcms/dateandtime/dateandtime.ui c073b5e 
>   kcms/dateandtime/dtime.h 1a90698 
>   kcms/dateandtime/dtime.cpp 482e483 
>   kcms/dateandtime/main.h c1e5234 
>   kcms/dateandtime/main.cpp 0041a9d 
>   kcms/dateandtime/timedated1.xml PRE-CREATION 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/122400/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> David Edmundson
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