Plasma on MID, take 2

[Marco Martin]

On Monday 30 March 2009, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Sunday 29 March 2009, Artur Souza (MoRpHeUz) wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> > > which is why i didn't comment on things like geospatial or network
> > > location information. we probably really don't even need to store a
> > > whole history, just the last N events for a given application.
> >
> > Maybe geoclue can help us on this topic ?
>
> i've looked into geoclue and i don't think it's overly useful,
> unfortunately. it's not a great api, pulls in a lot of dependencies we
> don't want and what it does can be pretty easily reimplemented i think. i
> am impressed what the geoclue guys have built on top of it, though :)

libgps and the simple dataengine on top of it that is in playground could be 
useful or too simple?

> > And for sure, storing the
> > whole history
> > is a no go because we are on a really limited hw.
>
> yep.
>
> > But yes, context really helps on smaller devices because it helps you
> > find what you're
> > looking for faster than if there is a place with everything there.
> > Probably what we are
> > trying to achieve here is a minimum amount of interactions for a given
> > user start doing
> > what he's actually interested in doing..
>
> yes.