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Integrate <a href="http://www.catb.org/gpsd/">libgps</a> [done!]

<dd>

This was the most urgent issue: rather than using the

<code>libgps</code>

API to communicate with GPS-management daemons, tangoGPS

and FoxtrotGPS rely on using the gpsd-2.x protocol

directly; but, due to severe limitations of this

legacy protocol, gpsd has recently

<a href="http://www.catb.org/gpsd/protocol-transition.html">switched</a>

to using a different and necessarily-incompatible protocol.

<code>libgps</code> provides uniform access to GPS services

using either protocol, as well as insulation against any similar

issues that should arise in the future.

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Reconstruct the missing GUI-definition [done!]

<dd>

The GUI implementation inherited from tangoGPS appears

to have been generated upstream from a

<a href="https://glade.gnome.org/">Glade</a> template-file

and consisted of

some ~4000 lines of automatically-generated code.

Unfortunately, the community did not have

access to that template-file, and any customisations that require

adding or changing GUI elements such as menu-items, buttons,

or layout were thus extremely difficult.

We have converted the GUI to GladeXML.

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Replace the proprietary `friends' and IM subsystems with

open, standards-based systems.

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