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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 6875f22e86..f05376efcf 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -5867,9 +5867,10 @@ adds or adjust services for a typical ``desktop'' setup. In particular, it adds a graphical login manager (@pxref{X Window, @code{slim-service}}), a network management tool (@pxref{Networking Services, @code{wicd-service}}), energy and color management services, -an NTP client (@pxref{Networking Services}), the Avahi -daemon, and has the name service switch service configured to be able to -use @code{nss-mdns} (@pxref{Name Service Switch, mDNS}). +the GeoClue location service, an NTP client (@pxref{Networking +Services}), the Avahi daemon, and has the name service switch service +configured to be able to use @code{nss-mdns} (@pxref{Name Service +Switch, mDNS}). @end defvr The @var{%desktop-services} variable can be used as the @code{services} @@ -5921,6 +5922,41 @@ tool. See @uref{http://www.freedesktop.org/software/colord/, the colord web site} for more information. @end deffn +@deffn {Scheme Procedure} geoclue-application name [#:allowed? #t] [#:system? #f] [#:users '()] +Return an configuration allowing an application to access GeoClue +location data. @var{name} is the Desktop ID of the application, without +the @code{.desktop} part. If @var{allowed?} is true, the application +will have access to location information by default. The boolean +@var{system?} value indicates that an application is a system component +or not. Finally @var{users} is a list of UIDs of all users for which +this application is allowed location info access. An empty users list +means that all users are allowed. +@end deffn + +@defvr {Scheme Variable} %standard-geoclue-applications +The standard list of well-known GeoClue application configurations, +granting authority to GNOME's date-and-time utility to ask for the +current location in order to set the time zone, and allowing the Firefox +(IceCat) and Epiphany web browsers to request location information. +Firefox and Epiphany both query the user before allowing a web page to +know the user's location. +@end defvr + +@deffn {Monadic Procedure} geoclue-service [#:colord @var{colord}] @ + [#:whitelist '()] @ + [#:wifi-geolocation-url "https://location.services.mozilla.com/v1/geolocate?key=geoclue"] @ + [#:submit-data? #f] + [#:wifi-submission-url "https://location.services.mozilla.com/v1/submit?key=geoclue"] @ + [#:submission-nick "geoclue"] @ + [#:applications %standard-geoclue-applications] +Return a service that runs the GeoClue location service. This service +provides a D-Bus interface to allow applications to request access to a +user's physical location, and optionally to add information to online +location databases. See +@uref{https://wiki.freedesktop.org/www/Software/GeoClue/, the GeoClue +web site} for more information. +@end deffn + @node Database Services @subsubsection Database Services |