On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Craig Andrews > <[email protected]> wrote: >>> This is definitely interesting. One potential issue though (and I can be >>> mistaken), is that it seems that this is more like a bunch of small >>> patches in many different modules. So be careful to explain the benefits >>> of all this when writing your application. And maybe find more related >>> things to do based on geoclue: the task as described seems to be a bit >>> too small. >> Epiphany would also benefit from geoclue in terms of HTML 5 location >> awareness. >> >> Two others apps (that are not gnome) that would benefit from geoclue are >> Firefox 3.1/3.5 as an HTML 5 geolocation provider, and Pidgin as a XEP-80 >> provider (similar to what Empathy has done). > > The Linux kernel's new wireless regulatory infrastructure would also > benefit and we can even use it to enhance roaming. We've actually put > an entry for this specific idea as part of Linux Foundation's GSoC > (Google Summer of Code) for 2009. It may be worth merging the two GSoC > project ideas as it seems there quite a few component which would > benefit, including now the kernel. The components relating to wireless > would be any gnome based wireless configuration manager (like Network > Manager, connman or wicd), once these become location-aware they can > then communicate to the kernel the country the user is in > automatically, using wpa_supplicant which supports the country > selection settings (country=US for example in your dynamically > generated foo.conf). Having this information centrally as part of > GNOME would beat having each application export a location interface > to geoclue. Eventually we can also enhance wireless roaming by keeping > record of APs based on position so we can always prefer the closest > and most recently seen AP. > > https://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Google_Summer_of_Code_2009#802.11_Wireless
I'll add that we also only have mostly kernel mentors, GNOME mentors would be good but since it seems a simiilar GSoC was written for the GNOME project this can go hand in hand. That how about -- Linux Foundation can mentor the kernel part of the GeoClue GSoC and GNOME would mentor with the integration on the desktop? Luis _______________________________________________ GeoClue mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/geoclue
