[Copying Henri in, he does know] On Wednesday, November 03, 2010 23:27:11 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Wednesday, November 3, 2010, Kevin Krammer wrote: > > On Wednesday, 2010-11-03, John Layt wrote: > > > The obvious backend solution is Geoclue, a freedesktop.org project > > > which is available on almost all distro's now, is used by Gnome, and > > > is an official part of the Meego platform. The problem comes in the > > > api to access Geoclue, which is a DBus based service with C bindings, > > > as we would obviously prefer a Qt-ish C++ wrapper for convenience. > > > > What kind of problem do you have in mind regarding a service with a D-Bus > > API? There are already tons of these and they are using D-Bus as the > > primary API exactly because it allows developers on different technology > > stacks to use their preferred way of handling the protocol. > > a) annoyance of using DBus directly > b) changes in the DBus API are out of our control. > > that said, what dependencies does Geoclue have these days? it used to > depend on gconf, which would be a highly unfortunate dependency for > kdelibs to acquire. it was said a few years (!) back that this dependency > would be easy to remove and would likely be. has it been?
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