Bug 487970

Summary:	Retiring the Mozilla Location Service on June 12th 2024
Product:	[Applications] systemsettings	Reporter:	postix <postix>
Component:	kcm_nighttime	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	anton.schenker, antonioni.rocha, bharadwaj.raju777, ht990332, isma.af, kwin-bugs-null, Michael.Eber0624, natalie_clarius, nate, sergio.callegari, vlad.zahorodnii
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	6.1.4
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description postix 2024-06-03 15:40:19 UTC

Night light uses MLS for querying the geo location. I am not sure if you are away that
> On June 12th, 2024 third party API keys will be removed
> and the service will only be available for Mozilla’s use cases. 
rendering this feature broken.

Source: https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/issues/2065#issue-2184571117

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2024-06-11 20:40:45 UTC

We are aware, but it's not clear how we should proceed. There is geoip.kde.org but it's significantly less precise. Maybe it would suffice for the Night Color use case though.

Comment 2 Antonio Rojas 2024-06-17 07:30:20 UTC

*** Bug 488611 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Bug Janitor Service 2024-06-17 08:36:31 UTC

A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/4461

Comment 4 Vlad Zahorodnii 2024-08-18 17:31:16 UTC

Git commit d8554e0f5a547bb8ae1fbf507a8253cbcea5d01b by Vlad Zahorodnii.
Committed on 18/08/2024 at 17:15.
Pushed by vladz into branch 'master'.

libcolorcorrect: Switch to QtPositioning

This doesn't fully fix Night Light using the MLS but this moves the
problem upstream - either GeoClue or Qt.

M  +1    -1    CMakeLists.txt
M  +1    -0    libcolorcorrect/kded/CMakeLists.txt
M  +18   -12   libcolorcorrect/kded/locationupdater.cpp
M  +3    -4    libcolorcorrect/kded/locationupdater.h

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/d8554e0f5a547bb8ae1fbf507a8253cbcea5d01b

Comment 5 Vlad Zahorodnii 2024-08-18 17:31:24 UTC

Git commit 3bfd818655f7979f1f6428e20cfe1497dfe3a201 by Vlad Zahorodnii.
Committed on 18/08/2024 at 17:15.
Pushed by vladz into branch 'master'.

kcms/nightlight: Switch to QtPositioning

This doesn't fully fix Night Light using the MLS but this moves the
problem upstream - either GeoClue or Qt.

M  +16   -51   kcms/nightlight/ui/main.qml

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/3bfd818655f7979f1f6428e20cfe1497dfe3a201

Comment 6 Hussam Al-Tayeb 2024-08-19 06:31:01 UTC

Moving the issue upstream is a good design choice as it consolidates the areas that needs fixing throughout affected projects into Qt or geoclue. Geoclue's configuration file can be easily changed as well.

Comment 7 Ismael Asensio 2025-02-11 23:39:31 UTC

*** Bug 499826 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Nate Graham 2025-09-05 10:51:29 UTC

It happened and we moved to GeoClue, which abstracts this behind distro-configured backends.