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

[Ludovic Courtès]

Andy Wingo <address@hidden> skribis:

> From d94d4fb4c89ec6cde152ab031244a3977e216b1e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Andy Wingo <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2015 20:43:03 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Add GeoClue service.
>
> * gnu/services/desktop.scm (bool): New top-level helper.
>   (upower-configuration-file): Use top-level `bool'.
>   (geoclue-application): New public function.
>   (%standard-geoclue-applications): New public variable.
>   (geoclue-service): New public variable.
>   (%desktop-services): Add GeoClue.  Add a comment about activation.
>
> * doc/guix.texi (Desktop Services): Document the GeoClue service.

Applied, thanks!

> 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.

WDYT?

Thanks,
Ludo’.