The lack of such feature can easily mask issues under the location- service (as there is no really way to know when it's indeed consuming data from the hardware, which is something that consumes the battery quite a bit).
As a user I find this super annoying, specially when coming from an android phone (that always says when it's used). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to indicator-location in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1407921 Title: There is no feedback when GPS is used, or when a GPS lock is being acquired Status in Ubuntu UX bugs: New Status in indicator-location package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: The only information the location indicator icon conveys currently is whether location detection is enabled at all, when more data could be interesting. Especially acquiring a GPS lock is often interesting, as this greatly impacts the location accuracy. Maybe the location icon should be dimmed when nothing is using it and blink when GPS lock is being acquired, bright when the lock is fine? The current spec is @ https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Location ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04 Package: indicator-location 13.10.0+14.10.20141007-0ubuntu1 Uname: Linux 3.4.67 armv7l ApportVersion: 2.15-0ubuntu3 Architecture: armhf Date: Tue Jan 6 11:17:17 2015 InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-12-17 (20 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu Vivid Vervet (development branch) - armhf (20141217-020204) SourcePackage: indicator-location UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-ux/+bug/1407921/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
