(Pat, thanks for the screenshot of the first-run setup.) The "Location" screen in the first-run setup presents exactly the same choice, in the same amount of screen space, as the "Location" screen in System Settings. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Location> On Windows and Mac, it is standard for wizards/assistants to start a screen with a question, e.g. "How would you like the phone to detect your location?", where a non-wizard/assistant UI for the same thing would use an imperative label, e.g. "Let the phone detect your location:". We might choose to follow that pattern for our first-run setup. If we did, the first piece of text would be different from System Settings. But with that possible exception, I think the controls+text in the two screens should be identical. In other words, it would not make sense for this bug report to be resolved one way for System Settings and another way for Unity 8.
(Currently the setup and System Settings screen use an identical intro label, but different controls -- radio list vs. checkboxes -- and slightly different text. None of this seems to be intentional; it's merely an architectural flaw, in that there are two implementations of the UI, which have inevitably drifted apart. <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~unity-team/unity8/trunk/view/head:/qml/Wizard/Pages/50-location.qml#L58> <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~system-settings-touch/ubuntu-system-settings/trunk/view/head:/plugins/security-privacy/Location.qml#L93>) With that said, I don't see any reason to doubt what I said before, that "GPS alone is less accurate than GPS + Wi-Fi + cell tower data". Yes, Ondrej, GPS would be more accurate than *just* Wi-Fi + cell tower data -- but just Wi-Fi + cell tower data is not one of the options! If you think it should be, then report that separately. To put it another way, time can be divided into two periods: before the phone gets its first GPS fix, and after. Before, GPS-only is infinitely less accurate, because it has no idea where you are at all. Afterwards, the two methods are mostly identical, except in places like basements or Tube stations, where GPS-only is still less accurate. Given the limited screen space, I still think it's reasonable to have summarized "infinitely less accurate some of the time, and occasionally less accurate the rest of the time" as "(less accurate)". -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1421623 Title: Welcome wizard claims GPS is less accurate than wifi based location To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1421623/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
