Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add GeoClue desktop service.

[Andy Wingo]

On Thu 20 Aug 2015 17:09, address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

>> address@hidden {Scheme Variable} %standard-geoclue-applications
>> +The standard list of well-known GeoClue application configurations,
>> +granting authority to GNOME's date-and-time utility to ask for the
>> +current location in order to set the time zone, and allowing the Firefox
>> +(IceCat) and Epiphany web browsers to request location information.
>> +Firefox and Epiphany both query the user before allowing a web page to
>> +know the user's location.
>> address@hidden defvr
>
> Does that mean that all these applications get blanket access to
> location info, and just happen to be nice enough to ask the user?
>
> If the answer is yes, I would rather remove the Web browsers from this
> list by default.

I think that's right.  I'm still figuring some of this out :P But yeah,
I think the reasoning is that since web browsers ask you already, don't
default to giving the web access, and you already trust the web browser
in other ways, that this is a reasonable default that prevents
double-asking.

I guess ideally it would be going through policykit and asking the user
through the session manager.  Maybe that's a TODO; dunno.

Andy