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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