[kde-edu]: gps interface/daemon/spec for kde/gnome

[Torsten Rahn]

Hi,

Has there by chance been any progress on this? :-)
It would be cool if someone could send me some GeoClue integration patches for 
Marble ... 

Best Regards,

Torsten


On Wednesday 07 January 2009 10:53:19 Torsten Rahn wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 January 2009 01:24:52 you wrote:
> > i checked the GeoClue code for the dependency on gconf, and it's
> > really nothing (get's only one key (/apps/geoclue/master) from gconf -
> > that's it) .
>
> Great :-)
> > so it should be no big deal to send a patch in. the other thing is:
> > would it be a problem to depend on geoclue ? it's a freedesktop spec
> > though...
>
> Well, does geoclue depend on other (gtk/gnome/?) stuff? If not I'd say that
> it's not a problem at all.
>
> > when i'll get my gps device tomorrow, the first thing i would try to
> > work on is the automatic detection of the gps device by solid . what
> > do you think ?
>
> Well at least for Marble I'm not keen on having a strong KDE dependency for
> this kind of thing.
>
> But maybe I understand things wrongly: if it would be possible to create a
> solid backend that acts as a GeoClue "Master" (or whatever it was called)
> so that one could choose from different GeoClue fdo implementations that
> would sound like a good thing to me.
>
> Torsten
>
> > Christian
> >
> > On 1/6/09, Torsten Rahn <rahn at kde.org> wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 06 January 2009 19:58:52 Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > >> On Tuesday 06 January 2009, C.Mueller wrote:
> > >> > i like to volunteer to create some Interface /Daemon /Freedesktop
> > >> > spec / Dbus for GPS Abstraction.
> > >>
> > >> Did you have a look at GeoClue?
> > >> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/GeoClue
> > >
> > > The current problem with GeoClue is that it's using GConf for saving
> > > settings.
> > > Once somebody comes up with a patch to enable Qt-based settings saving
> > > I'd love to use it in Marble ...
> > > So Christian, if you could take care of that that would be awesome :-)
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Torsten
> > >
> > >> > Please add me to the edu mailing list - thanks !
> > >>
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> > >>
> > >> Cheers,
> > >> Kevin
>
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