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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. 

Perhaps just a misunderstanding, and Gnome simply calls
"geolocation" to call into whatever API thingmajig your
smartphone offers to query the GPS+plus+cell-tower position
determination Rube Goldbergism? Falling back to Ip based
guessing when that fails (or is disallowed)?

I just don't know.

Cheers
-- tomás

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