Making geoclue more desktop agnostic.

[Peter Robinson]

>> Another option to using an /etc file would be just removing the
>> configs. Jussi, any opinions?
>
> I'm not Jussi, just someone lurking here hoping for Telepathy <-> Geoclue
> integration, but I would certainly advocate making service daemons like
> Geoclue providers not read configuration files. In Telepathy, we have a policy
> that all configuration is fed into the connection managers over D-Bus by the
> clients that start them (clients can get the config from wherever they like,
> in an appropriate and desktop-specific way) and that's worked quite well for
> us.
>
> (Unrelated: we'd still like opinions on
> http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/spec.html#org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Connection.Interface.Location.DRAFT
> which is heavily based on XEP-0080 and Geoclue. :-)

I filed a bug about this a while ago requesting the feature :-)
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19962