Geoclue 2.1.8

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Wed Apr 16 01:43:28 PDT 2014


> - Switch to Mozilla Location Service for geoip as well.
> - Allow specifying nickname to submit network data with.
> - Report actual available accuracy level and keep it up2date.
> - Add 'Active' property to indicate client state.
> - Expose altitude info (if known).
> - Timeout on inactivity, rather than no clients.
> - Automatically:
>   - stop the client if max accuracy level is set to 0.
>   - start the client if max accuracy level is set to non-0 and it was
>     automatically stopped.
> - Don't disable modem after using it. Disabling the modem, disables it for
>   everyone so if there was an active connection going on through the modem,
>   geoclue will cause it to disconnect. While we need to have some centralized
>   means to enable/disable modem and ideally geoclue shouldn't do any
>   enabling/disabling of modems at all, for now lets just only enable the
>   modem.

Maybe I'm missing the context here but shouldn't both the
enable/disable and use of the modem be dictated by RF kill switch /
airplane mode as well?

Peter


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