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

[Torsten Rahn]

On Monday 09 February 2009 23:41:19 C.Mueller wrote:
> i am on it - but i have to add hardware detection to hal and solid first -
> as these devices are mostly USB to TTY bridges, we have to make same sort
> of "asking the user what to do with the detected device".
>
> after that - it should feed the data to geoclue ...

Well it would be nice if there was some simple "interface" for Marble that 
does _not_ depend on solid as I'd like to be able to make use of GeoClue 
inside the Marble library, too (which doesn't depend on KDE). 

Regards,

Torsten

> someone already added support for USB to TTY devices to kde trunk, but not
> dependend on gps devices.
> i can forward this mail if you want. geoclue integration itself is not
> started because of this.
>
> Greetings Chris.
>
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 11:36 PM, Torsten Rahn <rahn at kde.org> wrote:
> > 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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