(In reply to Emilio Cobos Álvarez (:emilio) from comment #7) > How does this compare to the portal service that was recently added for > Flatpak and so on? Do we really need both?
Portal service is a limited API for Flatpak containers that internally forwards to Geoclue. Without Flatpak runtime that API is not available. In contrast to the portal provider this is a complete, native Geoclue API implementation on a state machine (for handling corner cases, etc.) for use in a standalone Firefox. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of UBUNTU - AL - BR, which is subscribed to Chromium Browser. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1100326 Title: Location requested by websites should be able to use GPS/mobile positioning Status in Chromium Browser: Fix Committed Status in Mozilla Firefox: Confirmed Status in GeoClue: Won't Fix Status in WebKit: Fix Released Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in firefox package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in geoclue-2.0 package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in geoclue-providers package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: It would be nice if location requested by websites could use location found from GPS or GSM/CDMA positioning. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/chromium-browser/+bug/1100326/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~linux-traipu Post to : linux-traipu@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~linux-traipu More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp