On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Hanno Schlichting <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi.
Hi Hanno, > First off, I merged your two leaderboard entries ;) Cool, thanks. :) > On 04.09.2014, at 14:07 , Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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. > > I think it makes sense for Fedora to use MLS via the existing code base. All > that needs to be done to get working geolocation is a build config change and > adding the api key. The code to talk to MLS / Google is already there in > Firefox, so this is very simple non-coding change. Ah ok, a low hanging fruit then. > In my opinion switching to geoclue still makes sense for a different set of > reasons. As you mentioned, geoclue can actually talk to more sources like GPS > and cell modems. It can also act as an app-agnostic caching layer, so if a > native maps app already got your location, maybe Firefox doesn’t have to call > out to the network at all anymore, as geoclue already has a recent and good > location fix. > > And if we’d ever get any sort of offline database, geoclue would be a much > better layer to implement it than making this specific to each app. > > In that light geoclue makes sense to get better quality and improvements. > That’s maybe a harder sell than just going from broken to basic > functionality, but there’s still value to be had here. Fair enough, I'm glad we agree though on the need for switching to geoclue. -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) ________________________________________ Befriend GNOME: http://www.gnome.org/friends/ _______________________________________________ dev-geolocation mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-geolocation
