Re: Map Library

[Michael Terry <michael terry canonical com>]

Bump!  Any thoughts on the idea of splitting out the map widget into a 
library (new or existing) for easier use by other packages like 
Ubiquity, other installers, etc?
-mt

On 25/02/11 06:49, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 13:17 -0500, Michael Terry wrote:
> > Hello, gentle gnome-control-center maintainers!
> adding g-c-c list to CC
>
> > I noticed that the 3.0 control center has a ported version of Ubiquity's
> > timezone map.  When implementing the spec for indicator-datetime's
> > preference dialog [1], I also wanted the same timezone map and am now
> > interested in avoiding having so many copies of the code and data
> > floating around the world.
> >
> > In the short term, I'm just using a static library consisting of a
> > patched version of the map from the control center.
> >
> > But long term, maybe 3.2, would you consider splitting the map into its
> > own library so that all three projects (GNOME, ubiquity, and
> > indicator-datetime) can use it?  (or putting it into an appropriate
> > existing library)
> >
> > There are some additions that Ubuntu would need (and I can provide
> > patches for):
> >    * A GtkEntryCompletion object that grabs names from a geonames server
> > (would not need to be tied to the map, just something that both ubiquity
> > and indicator-datetime would use and would be a convenient place to keep it)
> >    * The ability to add a string watermark (to meet geonames.org
> > attribution requirements)
> >    * The ability to query what timezone is nearest a long/lat pair
> maybe it would make sense in libchamplain?