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Introducing geoclue-properties

June 8th, 2009 by Pierre-Luc Beaudoin

While deploying Geoclue with friends, I came to the conclusion that we need a GUI tool for end users to setup Geoclue. Geoclue-properties was born. gstreamer-properties was an inspiration (for the name, and part of the visual aspect).

I started the project only last Monday night, but you can already do this with it:

See your current address and postion according to Geoclue
List installed providers and their provided services
Set an address on the Manual provider
Set the address for the current network on the Localnet provider
List previously configured addresses in the Localnet provider

Just the last items save the user of having to use dbus-send incantations. For the screenshot lovers, here’s your dose.

The project is still quite embryonic. It is my first attempt at using Python for such a task and I lack knowledge (and quite frankly time) on how to create the project’s infrastructure (almost as if I am missing autotools — scary!). If someone is willing to contribute that or point me the doc I’d appreciate!

Try it!

9 Responses

Javier writes:

June 9th, 2009 at 8:01

Hello,

this is amazing!! How about integrate this in “About me” in Gnome?

Pierre-Luc Beaudoin writes:

June 9th, 2009 at 9:14

The way I see it, About Me should contain your postal address, while this tool contains your dynamic location.

Henri Bergius writes:

June 11th, 2009 at 5:49

This should show a map, too

Pierre-Luc Beaudoin writes:

June 11th, 2009 at 8:19

Definitively

Stefano Costa writes:

June 23rd, 2009 at 17:41

Hi,
I cloned your git repo and tried installing gc-p, but it gives me an Exception:

(geoenv)steko@gibreel:~/code/geoclue-properties$ geoclue-properties
D-Bus error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/home/steko/code/geoclue-properties/geoenv/bin/geoclue-properties”, line 7, in
sys.exit(geoclueproperties.geoclue_properties.main())
File “/home/steko/code/geoclue-properties/geoenv/lib/python2.5/site-packages/geoclueproperties/geoclue_properties.py”, line 261, in main
dialog = GeocluePropertiesDialog()
File “/home/steko/code/geoclue-properties/geoenv/lib/python2.5/site-packages/geoclueproperties/geoclue_properties.py”, line 71, in __init__
self.create_general_tab()
File “/home/steko/code/geoclue-properties/geoenv/lib/python2.5/site-packages/geoclueproperties/geoclue_properties.py”, line 218, in create_general_tab
client.SetRequirements(geoclue.ACCURACY_LEVEL_COUNTRY, 0, True, geoclue.RESOURCE_NETWORK)
File “/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/dbus/proxies.py”, line 140, in __call__
**keywords)
File “/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/dbus/connection.py”, line 622, in call_blocking
message, timeout)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name :1.291 was not provided by any .service files

Björn Heide writes:

June 23rd, 2009 at 19:34

@Stefano:
Same here until I removed the geoclue-examples package (debian). Must be something wrong with /usr/lib/geoclue/geoclue-example

Stefano Costa writes:

June 24th, 2009 at 8:18

@Björn
Right (sid/experimental too), it goes away.

Now the GUI shows, but in the terminal there are some other warnings and errors, perhaps they’re useful for Pierre-Luc:

(geoenv)steko@gibreel:~/code/geoclue-properties$ ./geoclue-properties
ERROR:dbus.proxies:Introspect error on :1.71:/org/freedesktop/Geoclue/Master: dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
org.freedesktop.DBus.GLib.UnmappedError.GeoclueErrorQuark.Code1: Geoclue master client has no usable Position providers
/home/steko/code/geoclue-properties/geoclueproperties/geoclue_properties.py:174: GtkWarning: gdk_x11_atom_to_xatom_for_display: assertion `atom != GDK_NONE’ failed
dialog.run()

kr0y writes:

June 29th, 2009 at 11:48

I encounter the following error :
./geoclue-properties.py
D-Bus error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “./geoclue-properties.py”, line 262, in
dialog = GeocluePropertiesDialog()
File “./geoclue-properties.py”, line 72, in __init__
self.create_general_tab()
File “./geoclue-properties.py”, line 219, in create_general_tab
client.SetRequirements(geoclue.ACCURACY_LEVEL_COUNTRY, 0, True, geoclue.RESOURCE_NETWORK)
File “/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/dbus/proxies.py”, line 140, in __call__
**keywords)
File “/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/dbus/connection.py”, line 622, in call_blocking
message, timeout)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name :1.161 was not provided by any .service files

Also I checked for geoclue-example but couldnt find /usr/lib/geoclue/geoclue-example
I found an executable in /usr/local/libexec/geoclue-example , removed and tried but still didnt help.

Pierre-Luc Beaudoin writes:

June 29th, 2009 at 12:13

OK, can we agree that comments on a blog are not a place to debug stuff? Please send me an email instead.