Idea of my GSoC '09 Project : Making Gnome desktop location aware

Craig Andrews candrews at integralblue.com
Sun Mar 15 19:07:01 PDT 2009


> This is definitely interesting. One potential issue though (and I can be
> mistaken), is that it seems that this is more like a bunch of small
> patches in many different modules. So be careful to explain the benefits
> of all this when writing your application. And maybe find more related
> things to do based on geoclue: the task as described seems to be a bit
> too small.
Epiphany would also benefit from geoclue in terms of HTML 5 location
awareness.

Two others apps (that are not gnome) that would benefit from geoclue are
Firefox 3.1/3.5 as an HTML 5 geolocation provider, and Pidgin as a XEP-80
provider (similar to what Empathy has done).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Vincent
Thanks,
~Craig


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