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