Bug 27891

Summary: Combine the position & address APIs
Product: GeoClue Reporter: Bastien Nocera <bugzilla>
Component: GeneralAssignee: Geoclue Bugs <geoclue-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact: Geoclue Bugs <geoclue-bugs>
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:

Description Bastien Nocera 2010-04-29 07:01:38 UTC 
As per:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.geoclue/246/

You want both most of the time and it avoids disconnects between the providers.
Comment 1 Jussi Kukkonen [inactive] 2010-09-22 02:55:05 UTC 
It's usefult to note that people who see geoclue as first and foremost a GPS wrapper with fallback methods (say, people developing for mobile phones) would like and api like this:
1. position, velocity, satellite data (which we currently don't have) all available in one callback/signal
2. the rest (addresses, geocoding) can be laid out however, but the unavailability of e.g. address data should not delay the position delivery

Not sure how to reconcile this... Maybe just single Location interface with other ways to deal with capabilities: back when we designed the current api, separate interfaces sounded like a good enough way to do that but it seems that is incorrect.
Comment 2 Jussi Kukkonen [inactive] 2010-09-22 04:58:35 UTC 
See bug 29989 for the "combine position and velocity" issue.
Comment 3 Zeeshan Ali 2013-09-09 14:50:13 UTC 
Closing all bugs on old geoclue. If your bug still applies to new geoclue, please do re-open, I really don't have time to go through each and every bug and evaluate separately. :( Apologies for any inconvenience caused by this change.

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