Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps
On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 03:35:01PM -0000, Curt wrote:
> On 2020-04-10, Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 03:14:33PM -0000, Curt wrote:
> >> On 2020-04-10, Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > The software behaviour does not depend on one's beliefs.
> >>
> >> It does and can quite often depend on *user configuration*, though, and the OP I
> >> believe has informed us he has *turned off* geolocation services.
> >
> > And GNOME Maps has this neat library as a dependency that can use
> > geolocation regardless of the said setting.
>
> So you're saying that Gnome Maps *uses* the geolocation library even in
> the case of a user who has explicitly turned that "feature" off in his
> privacy settings, in blatant disregard of those settings?
>
> That is really an egregious bug, then, and should be reported.
I'm saying that it can. Too lazy to dig into the Javascript that GNOME
Maps is written. Explains the behaviour OP's seeing IMO.
Reco
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