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 Luis _______________________________________________ GeoClue mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/geoclue
