Phone functionality in GUI applications

[Daniel Willmann]

Hello Thomas,

On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 03:34:36 +0200
Thomas Seiler <thseiler at gmail.com> wrote:

> (drawing board only ;-)
> 
> I would like to see a more generic "Context Service", that takes
> the various inputs of
> 
> - last known GPS longitude / latitude and speed
> - GSM Area Code and Cell ID and rate at which these codes change
> - ESSID of avaibale WLANS
> - Bluetooth MAC Addresses of nearby Workstations and other Handies

have a look at GeoClue: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/GeoClue
This already provides some of the functionality you mention and new
backends are fairly easy to implement.

Regards,
Daniel Willmann
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