On Fri, 2020-04-10 at 17:51 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 03:35:01PM -0000, Curt wrote: > > On 2020-04-10, Reco <recovery...@enotuniq.net> wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 03:14:33PM -0000, Curt wrote: > > > > On 2020-04-10, Reco <recovery...@enotuniq.net> wrote: > > > > > The software behaviour does not depend on one's beliefs. > > > > > > > > It does and can quite often depend on *user configuration*, > > > > though, and the OP I > > > > believe has informed us he has *turned off* geolocation > > > > services. > > > > > > And GNOME Maps has this neat library as a dependency that can use > > > geolocation regardless of the said setting. > > > > So you're saying that Gnome Maps *uses* the geolocation library > > even in > > the case of a user who has explicitly turned that "feature" off in > > his > > privacy settings, in blatant disregard of those settings? > > > > That is really an egregious bug, then, and should be reported. > > Perhaps just a misunderstanding, and Gnome simply calls > "geolocation" to call into whatever API thingmajig your > smartphone offers to query the GPS+plus+cell-tower position > determination Rube Goldbergism? Falling back to Ip based > guessing when that fails (or is disallowed)? > > I just don't know. > > Cheers > -- tomás
Just fyi. I am on a machine with a newly installed Debian. No settings have been altered (including Location Services :Off). And I am connected to my apartments wifi and have not connected to any other network.
