On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 11:52 AM Sebastien Bacher <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey there, > > Le 08/06/2017 à 23:52, Robert Ancell a écrit : > > I'd like to propose GNOME Maps. This uses gjs so it is include-able > > now gnome-shell is in main. Maps is a core GNOME app. > > Since we are copying the previous discussion ... how well is it > maintained upstream and in Debian/Ubuntu (as well as its depends like > libchamplain, geoclue?)? Does it have any know CVE? > Debian is using 3.22, we're using 3.24 so both distros are fairly up to date with appropriate dependencies. I think you mean gfbgraph not geoclue (already in main). No CVE that I could find in any of those packages. > It's worth looking at and could be a nice addition but I wonder how many > users are going to use it rather that just opening google map in their > webbrowser? > I was also thinking that. It's much like the email client case we have. While I think a lot of users will use Google Maps in their browser, you can still get a nicer experience with a local map app. The one advantage of an app is offline map browsing. This was being worked on [1] but I'm not sure of the current state of it. [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=708799
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