QtPositioning with KStars?

[Jasem Mutlaq]

I found a relevant Qt bug: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-43435

Maybe we should voice our concern there to help it move forward?

On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 11:36 AM, <valentin at boettcher.cf> wrote:

> Yes QT uses the old API.
>
>
> On 9 August 2017 10:32:35 CEST, Jasem Mutlaq <mutlaqja at ikarustech.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> where-am-i worked for me, it was in the geoclue-2.0 package here. It
>> appears that geoclue-test-gui is for the older package. QtPositioning uses
>> DBus to communicate, but I wonder if there was a change in DBus calls from
>> v0.1.2 to 2.0+? At any rate, since we support multiple Operating Systems,
>> we can't rely on geoclue directly we have to use QtPositioning, but if it's
>> broken in 5.9 still then we have to delay until it is fixed.
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 10:46 AM, Valentin Boettcher <
>> valentin at boettcher.cf> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi.
>>>
>>> It may be, that my system differs from yours, bit I geoclue working.
>>>
>>> I would suggest, that you take the same steps as I did and try to build
>>> it from source. They also have a demo `where-am-i` in the demo folders
>>> which produced the following output for me:
>>>
>>> Client object: /org/freedesktop/GeoClue2/Client/1
>>>
>>> New location:
>>> Latitude:    51.034122°
>>> Longitude:   13.739034°
>>> Accuracy:    142.931009 meters
>>> Timestamp:   Wed 09 Aug 2017 09:41:21 AM CEST (1502264481 seconds since
>>> the Epoch)
>>>
>>> New location:
>>> Latitude:    51.034137°
>>> Longitude:   13.739026°
>>> Accuracy:    141.526416 meters
>>> Speed:       0.197150 meters/second
>>> Heading:     116.865814°
>>> Timestamp:   Wed 09 Aug 2017 09:41:30 AM CEST (1502264490 seconds since
>>> the Epoch)
>>>
>>>
>>> It seems that QT uses an older version of the library, but it is really
>>> quite simple to use it directly, though annoying for portability
>>> reasons.
>>>
>>> Well, however:
>>> https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/GeoClue/#index4h1 is the key.
>>>
>>> I'll have to test QT Location services.
>>>
>>> Cheers.
>>>
>>> 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!
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Best Regards,
>> Jasem Mutlaq
>>
>>
> --
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>



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Best Regards,
Jasem Mutlaq
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