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authorAndy Wingo <wingo@igalia.com>2015-08-15 21:36:22 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2015-08-20 17:05:30 +0200
commitcee32ee4d380ec2e1b1dc54ee73a45a5fd665ca8 (patch)
treed7772a326fac39ca23fa7fdb859798038512078f /gnu
parent4006fd87b5f390b3951b924003acaf4cdafcc193 (diff)
gnu: Add GeoClue desktop service.
* gnu/services/desktop.scm (bool): New top-level helper. (upower-configuration-file): Use top-level `bool'. (geoclue-application): New public function. (%standard-geoclue-applications): New public variable. (geoclue-service): New public variable. (%desktop-services): Add GeoClue. Add a comment about activation. * doc/guix.texi (Desktop Services): Document the GeoClue service. Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'gnu')
-rw-r--r--gnu/services/desktop.scm115
1 files changed, 111 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/services/desktop.scm b/gnu/services/desktop.scm
index 7ed62d07b5..4e4b49df3e 100644
--- a/gnu/services/desktop.scm
+++ b/gnu/services/desktop.scm
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@
#:export (dbus-service
upower-service
colord-service
+ geoclue-application
+ %standard-geoclue-applications
+ geoclue-service
%desktop-services))
;;; Commentary:
@@ -46,6 +49,14 @@
;;;
+;;; Helpers.
+;;;
+
+(define (bool value)
+ (if value "true\n" "false\n"))
+
+
+;;;
;;; D-Bus.
;;;
@@ -154,9 +165,6 @@ and policy files. For example, to allow avahi-daemon to use the system bus,
time-critical time-action
critical-power-action)
"Return an upower-daemon configuration file."
- (define (bool value)
- (if value "true\n" "false\n"))
-
(text-file "UPower.conf"
(string-append
"[UPower]\n"
@@ -274,6 +282,100 @@ site} for more information."
(shell
#~(string-append #$shadow "/sbin/nologin")))))))))
+
+;;;
+;;; GeoClue D-Bus service.
+;;;
+
+(define* (geoclue-application name #:key (allowed? #t) system? (users '()))
+ "Configure default GeoClue access permissions for an application. NAME is
+the Desktop ID of the application, without the .desktop part. If ALLOWED? is
+true, the application will have access to location information by default.
+The boolean SYSTEM? value indicates that an application is a system component
+or not. Finally USERS is a list of UIDs of all users for which this
+application is allowed location info access. An empty users list means all
+users are allowed."
+ (string-append
+ "[" name "]\n"
+ "allowed=" (bool allowed?)
+ "system=" (bool system?)
+ "users=" (string-join users ";") "\n"))
+
+(define %standard-geoclue-applications
+ (list (geoclue-application "gnome-datetime-panel" #:system? #t)
+ (geoclue-application "epiphany" #:system? #f)
+ (geoclue-application "firefox" #:system? #f)))
+
+(define* (geoclue-configuration-file #:key whitelist wifi-geolocation-url
+ submit-data?
+ wifi-submission-url submission-nick
+ applications)
+ "Return a geoclue configuration file."
+ (text-file "geoclue.conf"
+ (string-append
+ "[agent]\n"
+ "whitelist=" (string-join whitelist ";") "\n"
+ "[wifi]\n"
+ "url=" wifi-geolocation-url "\n"
+ "submit-data=" (bool submit-data?)
+ "submission-url=" wifi-submission-url "\n"
+ "submission-nick=" submission-nick "\n"
+ (string-join applications "\n"))))
+
+(define* (geoclue-service #:key (geoclue geoclue)
+ (whitelist '())
+ (wifi-geolocation-url
+ ;; Mozilla geolocation service:
+ "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 @command{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. By default, only the GNOME date-time panel and the Icecat
+and Epiphany web browsers are able to ask for the user's location, and in the
+case of Icecat and Epiphany, both will ask the user for permission first. See
+@uref{https://wiki.freedesktop.org/www/Software/GeoClue/, the geoclue web
+site} for more information."
+ (mlet %store-monad ((config (geoclue-configuration-file
+ #:whitelist whitelist
+ #:wifi-geolocation-url wifi-geolocation-url
+ #:submit-data? submit-data?
+ #:wifi-submission-url wifi-submission-url
+ #:submission-nick submission-nick
+ #:applications applications)))
+ (return
+ (service
+ (documentation "Run the GeoClue location service.")
+ (provision '(geoclue-daemon))
+ (requirement '(dbus-system))
+
+ (start #~(make-forkexec-constructor
+ (list (string-append #$geoclue "/libexec/geoclue"))
+ #:user "geoclue"
+ #:environment-variables
+ (list (string-append "GEOCLUE_CONFIG_FILE=" #$config))))
+ (stop #~(make-kill-destructor))
+
+ (user-groups (list (user-group
+ (name "geoclue")
+ (system? #t))))
+ (user-accounts (list (user-account
+ (name "geoclue")
+ (group "geoclue")
+ (system? #t)
+ (comment "GeoClue daemon user")
+ (home-directory "/var/empty")
+ (shell
+ "/run/current-system/profile/sbin/nologin"))))))))
+
+
+;;;
+;;; The default set of desktop services.
+;;;
(define %desktop-services
;; List of services typically useful for a "desktop" use case.
(cons* (slim-service)
@@ -281,8 +383,13 @@ site} for more information."
(avahi-service)
(wicd-service)
(upower-service)
+ ;; FIXME: The colord and geoclue services could all be bus-activated
+ ;; by default, so they don't run at program startup. However, user
+ ;; creation and /var/lib.colord creation happen at service activation
+ ;; time, so we currently add them to the set of default services.
(colord-service)
- (dbus-service (list avahi wicd upower colord))
+ (geoclue-service)
+ (dbus-service (list avahi wicd upower colord geoclue))
(ntp-service)