OK.    I agree it would not make sense as the desktop default.

On 01/01/11 14:53, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:
> We can't change PolicyKit permissions depending on whether the system is
> a laptop or not. So we'd have to make the change for all systems, which
> is not necessarily what people expect. And even laptops can be used e.g.
> in kiosks or schools, where you don't want people to play with system
> settings.
>
> I think the whole point will become obsolete anyway when GNOME 3
> introduces automatic detection of location based on network. See
> http://live.gnome.org/Design/SystemSettings/DateAndTime for a rough
> mockup, which is partly implemented upstream.
>

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  Timezone should not require superuser on laptop

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