[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 129879] Geoclue2 based backend should provide the right desktop ID

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129879

Adrian Perez <aperez at igalia.com> changed:

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--- Comment #6 from Adrian Perez <aperez at igalia.com> ---
(In reply to Michael Catanzaro from comment #4)
> (In reply to Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez from comment #2)
> > I wonder if its even possible to provide the right desktop ID on all cases?
> 
> No it's not possible, not unless we add new API. That's not needed, because
> it's easier to just require that g_get_prgname() match the desktop ID. I
> think we should change nothing and just document this somewhere.

There is a much better way than using g_get_prgname() — GApplication
(https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/GApplication.html):

   const char* appid = nullptr;
   GApplication* app = g_application_get_default();
   if (app) {
     appid = g_application_get_application_id(app);
   }
   // Maybe add a fall-back to g_get_prgname()


This allows different values for the application identifier, and the program
name. It is very common that they are different. Example: the program name
for Epiphany is “epiphany” (the name of the binary on disk), and the application
identifier is “org.gnome.Epiphany”.

We should use GApplcation when GLib 2.32+ is available, and document that
setting an application identifier using GApplication/GtkApplication is
needed for geolocation to work.

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