How to implement location awareness

Question

Is there any way I can make my laptop running kubuntu a bit more intelligent as to where it is?

I imagine this being done by detecting what wifi connections are around, or even just what wifi/wired network it's connected to and then being able to start/stop programs, run scripts etc. But really I don't mind how it's done.

Is there any way (program / script) I can implement this behaviour?

Answer 1

Absolutely! You will be happy to know that if you write a KDE Plasmoid, you have access to the Geolocation API in HTML5, which provides precisely the data you want without you having to worry about how it is implemented.

• Getting started with Plasmoid development
• Simple demo of how to use Geolocation API (source link on page)