On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 10:48 PM, Alan Bell <alanb...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > > > On 29/02/16 21:29, Thomas Voß wrote: >> >> With all due respect, this is not a bug in the platform. Are you, 2 >> other people, and others experiencing an issue? Certainly. Is the only >> way to fixing it to periodically wake up the phone? I don't think so >> as other mobile platforms get the job done without doing that. Did we >> make sure that no other layer in the stack is keeping around stale >> cached updates for longer than it should? I would be surprised, to be >> honest. > > so, if the app was coded perfectly, and the last known good position was 5 > hours old and miles away, it would give the app the last known position, and > the app would then decide it is too old, subscribe for updates and wait for > a fix. That is the absolute best an app or web page can do if the platform > is working as designed, make the human wait, or use a bad location. The app > can't be written better because getting the first fix needs to be pushed > back in time to shortly before the app starts.
Yes, by design we try not to guess what the user will do next ;) As mentioned in my other mail: I'm happy to work together with you on coming up with a heuristic that works for the majority of the users. > Incidentally giving a rubbish first fix also often means downloading a page > full of completely the wrong map tiles, which means more making the human > wait. > Unless the app identifies it as rubbish ;) But again: If we find that the heuristic does harm to the majority of the apps, I'm happy to remove it. Cheers, Thomas > Alan. > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
