Version: (using KDE 4.2.96) Installed from: Ubuntu Packages My location in OpenDesktop plasmoid is lat 49.0047 / long 8.3858, which is Karlsruhe in Germany. The nearby people shown are partly from this region, partly from completely elsewhere. Now when I query api.opendesktop.org directly via https://sgruendel@api.opendesktop.org/v1/person/data?latitude=49.0047&longitude=8.3858&distance=1.5&page=0&pagesize=10 I find people with the exact same coordinates (dist = 0), and some other people sorted descending by dist. This is what I would expect to see on the plasmoid's nearby view also, or what query is used there?
Hi Stefan, I reproduce the same behavior than you with KDE 4.4 SVN 1068732 | 4.6.0 But i wonder if it's not the Open Desktop api which is deficient. If I query via the api directly on: https://api.opendesktop.org/v1/person/data?latitude=46.083&longitude=6.417&distance=1.5&page=0&pagesize=10 (my coordinates) It shows me people more or less close to me, but not sorted correctly. Actually it seems to me that the distance calculated is wrong (it's not coherent for some coordinates I read). Also, you use 1.5 as distance parameter in your URL whereas the plasmoid uses 2 according to what I understand from the code: http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdeplasma-addons/applets/opendesktop/opendesktop.cpp?view=markup (line 223) Changing this parameter seems to give very different results...
Now I've tried again in Karmic Koala, KDE 4.3.2. After stopping plasma with "kquitapp plasma-desktop" and restarting with "plasma-desktop", I received quite interesting log messages: Location-based search: 49 9 5 URL: KUrl("https://api.opendesktop.org/v1/person/data?latitude=49&longitude=9&distance=5&page=0&pagesize=64") QUrl( "https://api.opendesktop.org/v1/person/data?latitude=49&longitude=9&distance=5&page=0&pagesize=64" ) "<?xml version="1.0"?> ... So the decimal part of the coordinates is cut off, it seems. As I understand the code in http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdeplasma-addons/applets/opendesktop/opendesktop.cpp?revision=1065206&view=markup, in line 221 latitude and longitude are passed as integers to the constructor, this doesn't look correct to me. Maybe I can figure out how to fix it and send in a patch, although I'm more a Java developer and my last C++ coding lies some years back ...
SVN commit 1076590 by gladhorn: don't use integers for lat/lon in geolocation and thanks to the bug reporter who wrote the solution!!! fixed in KDE SC 4.4 BUG: 200996 M +3 -3 opendesktop.cpp M +1 -1 opendesktop.h WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1076590