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[Thomas Voß <thomas.voss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Fabio Colella wrote on 23/06/14 10:32:
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>> 2014-06-23 9:12 GMT+02:00 Thomas Voß <thomas.voss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> ...
>>> On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 5:43 PM, Fabio Colella
>>> <fcole90@xxxxxxxxx
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>>>> Torrent apps(Transmission)
>>>
>>> The download service should be a good starting point here, with
>>> background synchronization being somewhat an exception.
>
> <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DownloadService/Download> does not say
> anything about which protocols the download service implements. (FTP?
> SFTP? HTTP with digest auth?) But since it asks for an "url", I doubt
> it would be any help for a torrent client.
>
>> ...
>>
>> If we will have a service for GPS in background, like a Runtastic
>> app, this will be something that could happen even on ubuntu. The
>> only way for me is to prompt the user to have access to background
>> services.
>
> It's not the only way. That could be handled by a geofence service: an
> app could ask "wake me up for a moment when the device reaches {less,
> more} than X meters from point Y".
>
> Runtastic would then set X to 20 meters or so, and Y to your current
> location. When you ran 20 meters, it would wake up, record the time
> and your location, set a new geofence 20 meters around your new
> location, and go to sleep again.
>

yup, geofencing is being worked on right now.

>> ...
>>
>> My idea is that you would need to ask the permission for
>> background services, like many android apps do to auth google+
>> connection. It could be a system prompt: "The app %s is asking
>> access to use background services". Then if the user presses 'yes'
>> the app will have the apparmor permission for backgound services,
>> not before.
>>
>> ...
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> One problem with this approach is that users wouldn't be able to make
> an informed decision. What would be the harm of saying yes? Less
> battery life, but how much less? Nobody would know.
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