Making geoclue more desktop agnostic.

iain iain at openedhand.com
Fri Feb 27 05:20:59 PST 2009


On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 13:36 +0100, Inge Wallin wrote:

>  It's also probably a bad thing for embedded systems where 
> available memory is smaller.

It's not really.

> So, I suggest to remove that dependency.  When I look through the sources, I 
> can only find one setting, namely "/apps/geoclue/master" in load_options() in 
> main.c. So I hereby offer to create a patch that will make Geoclue use a 
> standard text file in /etc.  I assure you that such a change will make it 
> much more attractive to non-gnome people, and maybe even add developers from 
> other parts of the free software community.

I don't see a problem with it, the master doesn't watch for changes, the
only thing is that the gconf version allows default/user/mandatory
settings, so any patch would need to take that into account.

iain



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