[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 81126] [Qt] Geolocation not working

Thu Jul 19 07:05:42 PDT 2012

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81126

Martin Leutelt <martin.leutelt at basyskom.com> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Martin Leutelt <martin.leutelt at basyskom.com>  2012-07-19 07:05:42 PST ---
Setup:
OS: OpenSuse 11.4
Qt Version: Qt5 (7e062e)
WebKit built from 5ceee4

It looks like the only way to get any kind of positioning data on the desktop would be to have the geoclue package installed. However geoclue doesn't seem to work at all on OpenSuse 11.4 but I also tested on Ubuntu 12.04 and there it worked fine (tested with geoclue-test-ui).

Regarding qtmobility: there is a wrapper (qgeopositioninfosource_geocluemaster) in the locations module to access geoclue but that is only built for meego, not for the desktop. So, you're out of luck with qtmobility on desktop.

For qt5 it looks a little bit different. The location stuff has moved from qtmobility to its own qt module called QtLocation. With the geoclue package installed I was able to compile the plugin. When starting the QtTestBrowser the
plugin gets loaded but it ultimately failes since geoclue doesn't run on OpenSuse. On Ubuntu it would probably work but I didn't try that.

So as far as I can see this isn't actually a bug.

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