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

[Torsten Rahn]

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
> >
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> >> Cheers,
> >> Kevin