Re: Geoclue needs your help!
On fre, 2014-01-24 at 20:06 +, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > So what I would really appreciate is for you nice folks to consider > installing Mozstumblr on your android phones (if you have one, that > is) and make our geolocation framework work as well as we all want it > to. Installing it now. Consider Gothenburg, Sweden covered! ;) ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
Re: Geoclue needs your help!
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 8:15 PM, Hashem Nasarat wrote: > Thanks for your work! Thanks for appreciation! > I think you should write a blog post about this to get wider coverage. I totally intend to. :) -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
Re: Geoclue needs your help!
Thanks for your work! I think you should write a blog post about this to get wider coverage. On 01/24/2014 03:06 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > Hi all, > As some of you might have heard, last week I added a > wifi-geolocation source to geoclue. I'm working on also adding 3G and > GPS sources but with GNOME running on mostly laptops, most people wont > have the needed hardware for these sources. Also is the fact that > laptops are usually used indoor and I'm not yet sure when we will have > GPSA support. Keeping all this in mind and that our geiop source > typically gives us city-level accuracy, this wifi-geolocation source > is the most important one. > > The source makes use of the new Mozilla Location Service[1] and that > being very new, does not have a lot of coverage. The good news is that > they provide a web API and an android application to allow people to > help them extend their coverage: Mozstumblr. I talked to our designers > briefly about having a similar service/app in GNOME to be able to > contribute data from GNOME itself as well but lack of GPS hardware > makes it rather not that useful in the end. > > So what I would really appreciate is for you nice folks to consider > installing Mozstumblr on your android phones (if you have one, that > is) and make our geolocation framework work as well as we all want it > to. > > Have a nice weekend! > ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
Geoclue needs your help!
Hi all, As some of you might have heard, last week I added a wifi-geolocation source to geoclue. I'm working on also adding 3G and GPS sources but with GNOME running on mostly laptops, most people wont have the needed hardware for these sources. Also is the fact that laptops are usually used indoor and I'm not yet sure when we will have GPSA support. Keeping all this in mind and that our geiop source typically gives us city-level accuracy, this wifi-geolocation source is the most important one. The source makes use of the new Mozilla Location Service[1] and that being very new, does not have a lot of coverage. The good news is that they provide a web API and an android application to allow people to help them extend their coverage: Mozstumblr. I talked to our designers briefly about having a similar service/app in GNOME to be able to contribute data from GNOME itself as well but lack of GPS hardware makes it rather not that useful in the end. So what I would really appreciate is for you nice folks to consider installing Mozstumblr on your android phones (if you have one, that is) and make our geolocation framework work as well as we all want it to. Have a nice weekend! -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 [1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/CloudServices/Location/About [2] https://wiki.mozilla.org/CloudServices/Location/About#How_can_I_get_involved.3F ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
Re: Hooking up gnome-session with dbus/kdbus/systemd
On Wed, 22.01.14 21:31, Matthias Clasen (matthias.cla...@gmail.com) wrote: > The only thing I've seen in this discussion that I disagree with is the > idea to make the distinction between starting a service (in the background) > and launching the application (opening a window) implicit, by looking at > somewhat obscure environment variables. That should be rather be explicit, > I think, and we want to limit the extent to which applications are allowed > to do that (run in the background). Yeah, I agree with this. As discussed with Ryan and others on IRC yesterday: I think the way forward here is to introduce a seperate ExecService= (or maybe ExecBusService= or so) field here, and for .desktop files without DBusActivatabe= set prorgams should just contiue forking off the binaries directly. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
