Hi all! I wanted to discuss some things around sharing. Currently in Maps we have a dialog to share locations with a fixed set of apps, Weather, Clocks, and the default browser. There are a couple of problems with this. First, detecting if Weather and Clocks are available currently not possible in Flatpaks (maybe there is a "portal" to detect such things, and also launch apps). Secondly these interact kinda poorly. For example sharing a location with Clocks will permanently add that location in Clocks with the name of the place (such as the name of a shop). The option for the browser (which opens the location on the openstreetmap.org site is somewhat more useful.
I recall there being some discussions before about a "sharing portal" (sharing a location might then share that as the object's URL on OSM). Is something like this already in place? (allowing sharing links with i.e. e-mail clients). A sorta "stop-gap" solution I was thinking about might be to have a dialog with read-only text entry filled with the URL allowing to copy- paste this (I think Google Maps have something similar, using a shortened URL). A companion feature for this could be to allow opening such URLs (and add Maps as a handler for HTTP(S) URIs). But maybe that would be considered bad praxis (not sure if it's possible to ensure that it would always have lower priority that any proper browsers). Ideally it would have cool to be able to add URI handlers for certain URL patterns. I brought up this at some point on IRC. But this would probably need quite some changes in how mime-handling is done. For the Clocks and Weather sharing, one option might be to show local time, or time difference and local weather (this would probably need an on/off switch for privacy reasons) directly in the "place bubbles". Or maybe skip this, assuming the user could just look up these things manually in the respective apps if wanted. Any thoughts? //Marcus _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list