I am reopening this bug since we don't know yet if we will disable
location services later.
** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Status: Fix Released => Triaged
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* Re-enable Location Services for now after more conversation
-- Jeremy Bícha Thu, 18 Apr 2024 12:54:43 -0400
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** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Debian)
Status: Unknown => New
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Title:
Disable location services in
** Tags removed: block-proposed
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Title:
Disable location services in gnome-control-center
To manage
** Also affects: ubuntu-release-notes
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
Disable location
Thank you for the feedback. The Ubuntu Desktop team is reverting this
gnome-control-center behavior change and will keep location services
enabled for now (even after 46.1). We'll see how things go later in the
year.
** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Status: Fix Committed =>
My proposal here was only for showing location features in gnome-
control-center.
I guess we'll need to SRU geoclue eventually but I don't think that's
needed now.
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** Tags added: block-proposed
** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Status: In Progress => Fix Committed
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Marco,
Context: Scarlett is the lead for Kubuntu, so she's looking at it from a
KDE Plasma perspective, which for her packaging purposes would need a
dpkg-divert to switch the geoclue.conf to something else, but that's not
exactly a problem for her as it's not a package they ship by default.
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> Nightcolor uses geoclue which is disabled by default and I guess users
will have to use the google option when the time comes ( not necessarily
easy, but an option. ) We do not have location settings in
systemsettings.
Using google for example is an option but that requires admin access,
while
Scarlett,
Ubuntu Studio has `plasma-wallpaper-dynamic` which pulls-in
`libqt5positioning5` which pulls in `geoclue-2.0` so Nightcolor detects
positioning by default for us. Apparently, it says this:
"The device's location will be periodically updated using GPS (if
available), or by sending
Not sure how affected we are. Nightcolor uses geoclue which is disabled
by default and I guess users will have to use the google option when the
time comes ( not necessarily easy, but an option. ) We do not have
location settings in systemsettings.
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I actually agree with Marco. If the fallback is GeoIP, maybe it's
premature to patch this out. GeoIP is "good enough".
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> Unfortunately, there does not appear to be any suitable replacement
for our typical desktop and laptop users.
When mozilla service is not used, GeoIP is used instead. It's not
perfect (especially if using a VPN) but it's good enough to provide
features such as automatic-timezone and night
** Changed in: gnome-control-center
Status: Unknown => New
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Title:
Disable location services in
** Description changed:
Impact
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Mozilla Location Services will be closed to all third parties (including
Ubuntu, GNOME, KDE, etc.) on June 12, 2024.
Unfortunately, there does not appear to be any suitable replacement for
our typical desktop and laptop users. (Mobile devices
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