On Wednesday, 2010-11-03, John Layt wrote: > [Apologies for the cross-post, but I'd like feedback from app developers on > their requirements too, not just core] > > Hi, > > This weekend the Marble devs are meeting for a sprint, and I'm tagging > along to discuss a few different issues that I'd like peoples feedback and > opinions on. > > The big one is Geolocation services, which more and more apps are making > use of, but which we don't have a central KDE way of accessing, which is > leading to each app implementing it themselves. > > The obvious backend solution is Geoclue, a freedesktop.org project which is > available on almost all distro's now, is used by Gnome, and is an official > part of the Meego platform. The problem comes in the api to access > Geoclue, which is a DBus based service with C bindings, as we would > obviously prefer a Qt-ish C++ wrapper for convenience.
What kind of problem do you have in mind regarding a service with a D-Bus API? There are already tons of these and they are using D-Bus as the primary API exactly because it allows developers on different technology stacks to use their preferred way of handling the protocol. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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