Thanks, sean and Seq_Res!
@sean, I'm glad I was able to help -- no worries about my time on this. I figure for each person who reports a problem here, there are ten people who experience it but don't report it, so it's never just about getting the problem fixed for one person.
@Seq_Res,
If I understand correctly, your XFCE panel was always showing UTC time, and you'd have to open orage globaltime and set it to your local timezone, just to see the time where you are? If so, that should not be the default, but I think a few users are experiencing this. The panel should show your local time and you should be able to use orage globaltime to see other timezones. Unfortunately, systems with UTC clocks don't get their local zone shown and systems with localtime clocks don't seem to work properly with orage globaltime (it adjusts the time assuming the system is set to UTC). More on this below.
RE: an archive manager, I do want to improve on squeeze, and have considered file-roller as well, since it also has built-in compatibility with the thunar-archive-plugin, but it doesn't appear to handle extracting iso's -- that would be a useful tool for the GUI (currently I use the mloop CLI utility by brokenman, and copy files out of /mnt/loop). This is on my to-do list for V2.0.
RE: abiword -- I'll consider splitting this out as well -- it may make sense since brokenman is offering it as a standalone module already in 32-bits. This would allow me to use his module for 32-bit xfce, and only have to maintain the packages for 64-bit myself.
@all: Back on topic: utc/timezone configs. I've started a gtkdialog script that acts as a front end to the slackware 'timeconfig' script. My goal is to allow users with UTC clocks to easily configure their system to UTC and select a timezone, and save a module (if running without 'changes=') with those settings. Here's my work in progress:
(Link is deprecated -- go to the thread linked at the bottom of this post instead)
This is still experimental and has no icons yet, but seems to behave most of the time for me. One problem is that it doesn't update the clock in the menu for trinity or kde4, so clicking the "apply" button won't show you the correct time -- you'll have to click "OK", then log out and back in (unless someone knows the command to restart the panels -- I'm afraid I've been spending too much time in xfce lately!). Also, trinity and kde4 have settings to handle timezones already. I'm not sure if these are sufficient and/or easier to use than my script. If so, I could have the script open the appropriate tde/kde4 settings dialog, and copy those settings instead, and then my gtkdialog window would only open in lxde/xfce.
I did have one instance where I exited the program without clicking "OK" or "Cancel" (logged out of the Desktop Environment with it open) and it altered my system time (directly, rather than through the config files saved by this script) -- To fix that, I booted into my BIOS and adjusted it back. Consider yourself warned if you are nervous about entering your BIOS... but otherwise, I'd love for folks to test this out and let me know if it works and if they like it. To use it, download the script somewhere (/tmp will do), make it executable with 'chmod +x porteus-timeconfig', and run it as root: 'ktsuss /tmp/porteus-timeconfig'. Enter the root password (toor) into ktsuss, and then adjust your settings according to the instructions.
Thanks!
Posted after 1 day 22 hours 17 minutes 10 seconds:
I've updated my script and published a module, see this thread:
http://porteus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=1389
I'm moving the discussion about this utility over there, and marking this thread as [SOLVED].
Thanks!