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#1424
One bug-vulnerability in Python-for-Maemo. When Python application decides that it wishes to use GPS, and Maemo knows that GPS was disabled by user, Python first asks user, with a system dialog, whether user wishes to "Enable positioning?", and then, irrespective of user's decision, force-enables GPS (blinking icon in status-bar; "Searching..." entry in status-menu), even though, according to user preferences, GPS is still disabled.
The only way to disable GPS is to either politely ask the benevolent application to not use GPS (because it apparently somehow disregards user preferences) or kill the malevolent (without an option to turn off GPS) application because it's apparently a loophole in Python-Maemo-GPS interaction (not stealthy, but still...)
Does anybody else have the same bug (Nokia N900, Fremantle, CSSU-Testing)?
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