gnome-control-center Date and Time settings do not affect the Date and Time indicator

[Kurt Bruneau]

gnome-control-center's Date and Time settings do not affect the Date and Time indicator.

The indicator is also using it's old gtk2 dialogs for it's settings.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.1.3-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0-3.4-generic 3.0.0-rc5
Uname: Linux 3.0-3-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Jul 7 12:53:23 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha amd64 (20110531.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-06-26 (10 days ago)

[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

From bug 809588, also, there's no way to select and display the date, e.g. Wed Jul 12

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

did you try to run indicator-datetime-preferences? seems similar to bug #802947

[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

On Jul 19, 2011, at 08:28 PM, Sebastien Bacher wrote:

>did you try to run indicator-datetime-preferences? seems similar to bug
>#802947

Okay, this is rather weird:

$ indicator-datetime-preferences
The program 'indicator-datetime-preferences' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install indicator-datetime
$ sudo apt-get install indicator-datetime
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
indicator-datetime is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
$ indicator-datetime-preferences
The program 'indicator-datetime-preferences' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install indicator-datetime

even a --reinstall doesn't give me /usr/bin/indicator-datetime-preferences,
which it seems like it should from this:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/oneiric/amd64/indicator-datetime/filelist

but the binary definitely seems to be missing from the .deb:

$ dpkg -c /var/cache/apt/archives/indicator-datetime_0.2.91-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb | grep preferences
-rw-r--r-- root/root 393 2011-07-12 14:20 ./usr/share/applications/indicator-datetime-preferences.desktop
$

What gives? ;)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

in fact that's probably a duplicate of the other bug, the standalone dialog is being converted to a gnome-control-center component but not listed yet