[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #2412: [Time] Integrate NTP client

  • From: "leavengood" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:54:59 -0000

#2412: [Time] Integrate NTP client
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  Reporter:  diver                    |        Owner:  leavengood
      Type:  enhancement              |       Status:  assigned
  Priority:  normal                   |    Milestone:  R1
 Component:  Preferences/Time & Date  |      Version:  R1/Development
Resolution:                           |     Keywords:
Blocked By:                           |  Has a Patch:  0
  Platform:  All                      |     Blocking:
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Comment (by leavengood):

 Hey Hamish,

 If you want to work on that, that would be great. In fact I was going to
 ask you in an email to try it as a GCI task, but did not have the time to
 prepare the task before the end of the GCI. Plus this is a fairly complex
 task and it was the last week of GCI when I was going to create the task.

 Anyhow, here is the email:

 I appreciate your work in adding NetworkTime to Haiku but I think the
 other developers actually wanted it integrated into the Time prelet. I
 don't think that was properly explained in the original GCI task.

 So what I'd like to propose is another GCI task to integrate NetworkTime
 as a new tab, called (wait for it): Network Time. While you are at it you
 could make Time use the layout kit (which we could make another GCI task
 so you get more points.)

 My thoughts on the UI is checkboxes for the options currently in the
 NetworkTime menu, a menu field for the server, and the same Edit Server
 List window (opened by a button) and the Update button and progress bar
 currently in the NetworkTime window. All that should fit fine with the
 current size of the Time prelet.

 Now the other aspect of this is the option to have the time updated
 periodically. For this I really think we need some sort of scheduled task
 runner in Haiku, and that is definitely outside the scope of this task. So
 for now I would not worry about that.

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