Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps
On Fri, 2020-04-10 at 17:51 +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> 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
Just fyi. I am on a machine with a newly installed Debian. No settings
have been altered (including Location Services :Off). And I am
connected to my apartments wifi and have not connected to any other
network.
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