Geoclue 2.1.8

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) zeeshanak at gnome.org
Wed Apr 16 06:43:24 PDT 2014


On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> - 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

Whats that? :)

> airplane mode as well?

Yeah, it actually should.Thanks for pointing out.

-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124


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