I had a chat with Alex Blasche from the Qt project about making the necessary changes to the QtLocation plugin API so that geoservice plugins would be allowed to use an external download manager and a tile cache service. He does not have objections to these extensions in principle, but it's up to us to make the first move.
I added the apparmor-easyprof-ubuntu project to the bug, because first of all we need to know if the security team agrees on opening up ~/.cache/QtLocation/ (this is the root dir where all cached tiles would be stored) for reading. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apparmor-easyprof-ubuntu in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1450168 Title: Map data should be shared between apps Status in apparmor-easyprof-ubuntu package in Ubuntu: New Status in qtlocation-opensource-src package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: The libqtgeoservices_osm.so plugin gets loaded in the same process as the application using it, and stores all the map tiles into ~/.cache /<click-package>/ This means that different apps will be unable to share the data, leading to wasted filesystem space. I suggest to modify the plugin so that: 1) Tiles are stored in a common place (and apparmor rules are relaxed to allow read access to that): ~/.cache/libqtgeoservices_osm/, for example 2) Tile downloads are managed by a separate service, started on demand. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apparmor-easyprof-ubuntu/+bug/1450168/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
