[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 120185] Port to Geoclue2

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120185





--- Comment #8 from Zeeshan Ali <zeeshanak at gnome.org>  2013-09-10 09:11:13 PST ---
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> > > > Started working on geoclue2 provider.
> > > 
> > > Awesome. Would be really nice if all apps have already ported in 3.10 so distros don't have to keep shipping the old unmaintained code.
> > 
> > To be clear, I meant GNOME 3.10. :)
> 
> While implementing it got few questions for you:
> 1) About accuracy - are you planning to add API to set accuracy level of the latitude and longitude coordinates?

If I understood your question correctly, no. This info is given from geoclue to app together with coordinates. Its accuracy of the location fix in meters. Currently its city-level at best. The app-writable 'DistanceThreshold' property is to specify the minimum distance changed before geoclue should notify your app.

> 2) Same about timestamps - there is no way to obtain them now.

What kind of timestamps you need?

> 3) I am going to use gdbus-codegen to generate wrapper for the API like they do it for Empathy. if you had client lib for the API it would be a bit easier but anyway I can live with the generated interface.

Sure. I was kind hoping that Empathy guys meant contributing patches for these rather when they said "contribute". :)

> 4) And last question for now :) where can I find geoclue2 ip location provider to try out my changes?

You don't need to do anything other than to just install geoclue2 (in system prefix as that seems to be required of system dbus services) and run your app.

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