Ubuntu's application indicators and GeoClue

[Jussi Kukkonen]

Henri Bergius wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net> wrote:
>> I think it's useless having an applet to do that, which exposes far too
>> much technical information, when we don't even have a proper setup
>> application.
> 
> I don't think "Stop GPS" is too much technical information. Mobile
> users do care about their battery life. And IMO, this sort of stuff is
> way better to handle via an applet or menu than a full-blown settings
> app.

Exposing a "manual location entry" and showing some sort of status for
power-critical things like GPS would be useful, but in general I agree
with Bastien. If we need to expose starting and stopping providers in
the main UI shell (like gnome-panel), we've done something wrong...

Jussi