On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Hanno Schlichting
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi.

Hi Hanno,

> I’m happy to report that the Fedora project is going to use the Mozilla 
> Location Service (MLS) as the default geolocation provider for their Firefox 
> Desktop packages.

While I'm very happy about all MLS developments, rely on it a lot in
geoclue and help with collection of data as much as I can, I'm not
exactly happy with this development in particular. IMHO this will
undermine my efforts to push for geoclue to be *the* geolocation
framework every app should be using on Linux desktop (especially
Fedora, since I work for RH). It will make it harder for me to
convince about the importance of firefox needing to use geoclue and
therefore getting any contributor to make that happen [1].

This is also not so good for firefox actually since it can't use
modems and thus you are limited to geoip and wifi-geolocation only.

Just my two cents.

-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
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[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=485472
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