Geoclue release

Long time, no reporting on Summer of Code progress…

Here goes:

• lots of small improvements to geoclue (see http://freedesktop.org/Software/GeoClue)
• gpsd provider now works and uses libgpsbt on maemo
• updated the project plan
• First public release (see release news)
• Release of a demo/test UI

The geoclue service/library is still a work-in-progress and the UI is a genuine 0.1-release (and neither are in a repository yet), but they’re there and they’re testable.

Screenshots

For those not interested in installing things by hand, here are some screenshots: First I clicked “Refresh” on demo home applet: position from default provider (Hostip.info web service) is shown. The position provider menu is also open.

Then I selected GPS in the menu and clicked “Refresh” again — now the position comes from a GPS device:

This is not very interesting in itself, but what is interesting is the code needed to write a client like the demo home applet there… Here is the position related code in the applet (error checking not included for clarity):

gdouble lat, lon;
geoclue_position_init ();
geoclue_position_current_position (&lat, &lon);

…and that is it.