Default App: GNOME Maps

[Robert Ancell]

On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 11:52 AM Sebastien Bacher <seb128 at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Hey there,
>
> Le 08/06/2017 à 23:52, Robert Ancell a écrit :
> > I'd like to propose GNOME Maps. This uses gjs so it is include-able
> > now gnome-shell is in main. Maps is a core GNOME app.
>
> Since we are copying the previous discussion ... how well is it
> maintained upstream and in Debian/Ubuntu (as well as its depends like
> libchamplain, geoclue?)? Does it have any know CVE?
>

Debian is using 3.22, we're using 3.24 so both distros are fairly up to
date with appropriate dependencies.

I think you mean gfbgraph not geoclue (already in main).

No CVE that I could find in any of those packages.


> It's worth looking at and could be a nice addition but I wonder how many
> users are going to use it rather that just opening google map in their
> webbrowser?
>

I was also thinking that. It's much like the email client case we have.
While I think a lot of users will use Google Maps in their browser, you can
still get a nicer experience with a local map app.

The one advantage of an app is offline map browsing. This was being worked
on [1] but I'm not sure of the current state of it.

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=708799
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