Kevin Krammer wrote: > On Thursday, 2011-04-28, John Layt wrote: >> Hi, >> >> There's been a short discussion on the GeoClue mailing list related to >> resolving the issues we have around their dependencies on gconf and >> gsettings >> >> and the latest response has been: >> > The GConf dependency is already gone. And I wouldn't take a patch to >> > remove the GSettings dependency. There's Qt bindings to access >> > GSettings, and GSettings lives in GIO, which is also where the >> > dbus-glib replacement (GDBus) lives. I don't think that trying to >> > replace a library that's already in the dependencies due to the way >> > packages are built is buying us anything but too moving parts. >> >> Now, I don't really know about GSettings, but I'm guessing this isn't an >> acceptable things for us? > > Can you elaborate on how this dependency affects KDE? Isn't GeoClue > offering its service through D-Bus interfaces?
IIRC it is, not only actual service is available but set of providers are introspectable and option getters/setters are available via dbus. http://folks.o-hand.com/jku/geoclue-docs/Geoclue.html A nightmare for me if using via dbus C API is used, but with Qt... -- regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek Kexi & Calligra (kexi-project.org, identi.ca/kexi, calligra-suite.org) KDE Software Development Platform on MS Windows (windows.kde.org)
