QtPositioning with KStars?

[Valentin Boettcher]

We may include it as git submodule and write our own API.

I would be quite happy to do that and maintain it.

Jasem Mutlaq <mutlaqja at ikarustech.com> writes:

> Hello all,
>
> So I tried recently to introduce QtPositioning into KStars location dialog
> so that it can fetch geo-location from Qt from whatever backend system
> supported on the operating system.
>
> It's already used in KStars Lite to fetch location info from Android.
> However, on desktop Linux, Qt Positioning relies on geoclue. I have it
> installed right here, but I can't seem to get any position info on it. I
> used geoclue-test-gui but that just threw errors even though I installed
> several position providers.
>
> Anybody has any clue how to diagnose the issue here? I really would like to
> make location-fetching part of the upcoming KStars release!