DesktopID

[Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)]

On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 7:43 AM, John Frankish <j-frankish at slb.com> wrote:
>> >> > On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 7:58 AM, John Frankish <j-frankish at slb.com> wrote:
>> >> > Using gnome-maps-3.10.2 and geoclue-2.1.6
>> >> >
>> >> > When used without gnome(-session) there is a  dbus error message complaining that the DesktopID is not set and, although gnome-maps starts, it starts at the default location.
>> >> >
>> >> > Is there a way for geoclue to work without DesktopID being set?
>> >>
>> >> No, geoclue 2.1 mandates that (for being able to implement privacy in
>> >> future). If you are using latest geoclue, you also want to use latest
>> >> Maps I'm afraid.
>> >>
>> > I've now tried with gnome-session-3.10.1, gnome-maps-3.10.2 and
>> geoclue-2.1.8 and still get the error:
>>
>> And you'll continue to get that unless you upgrade your Maps to latest stable
>> version too. :)
>
> Since that involves updating gjs, which means updating mozjs, which breaks several gnome-3.10.x components, I guess I'll abandon that.
>
> Was it really necessary to upgrade the gjs requirement?

I don't think it was me who did that but you are not meant to use new
geoclue with old GNOME anyway.


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Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
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