Guilhem Bonnefille guilhem.bonnefi...@gmail.com writes:
[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Maps
[2] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/geoclue
The first event brings a new competitor to viking, depending the goals of
the project. We can also consider the opportunity to revise the viking's
goals in order to avoid duplication and start collaboration with this
project. But we can stay as is and consider viking is a standalone
application, a Gtk application and not a Gnome application.
I think viking should stay as a GTK program. Gnome is a far
heavier-weight set of dependencies.I would expect that Gnome will
want to have a simple program that lacks confusing extra features,
intended for everyday users, whereas I see viking as aimed at map nerds
who are likely to be people who might even edit osm.
Looking at the page, this looks like a very early-stage program and I
see no discussion of GPX. It's not clear how it differs from
https://projects.gnome.org/emerillon/
I would suggest writing to the author and making them aware of viking.
The second event can be the opportunity to add a new backend to viking. I
already have such an idea, but never bring it to reality.
I looked into geoclue a while ago, probably in the context of gpsd. I
don't remember exactly why (portability/packaging perhaps), but I
decided to stop pursuing it as it seemed the difficulty outweighed the
benefit. If someone wants to write a patchset that lets viking use
geoclue as a way to center the map on one's position (vs. using gpsd),
that seems fine. It appears to increase the required set of
dependencies (at least dbus), so I would tend to make it optional and
defaulting to off, but that's trivial for people building or packaging
to --enable-geoclue as they wish.
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