2009/1/7 Ross Burton <r...@burtonini.com> > On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 17:24 +0000, Calum Benson wrote: > > > On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 19:08 +0100, Patryk Zawadzki wrote: > > >> Then we can build on top of that to provide locations so you can > > >> switch the usage profile, the proxy configuration, VPN settings and > > >> other stuff basing on where you sit (and get bonus points for > > >> detecting locations basing on stuff like current wireless network). > > >> Anyway that's a whole different story and does not belong in this > > >> thread. > > > > > > This sounds a lot like Marco Polo for MacOS, which I started cloning > > > as > > > Shackleton (http://burtonini.com/bzr/shackleton/). > > > > And FWIW, it's also what NWAM does (well, will do shortly) in > > OpenSolaris. > > <http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nwam/p1spec/Location_Spec/> > > Interesting. Is this going to be open source? > > Note that Shackleton is more than network location, contexts can be > keyed on: day of week, time of day, wireless network, gconf key, power > source, mounted volumes, connected devices, machines on the local > network or bluetooth devices in range. > > This does make a UI somewhat tricky to write though. :) > It's probably best _not_ to handle that in a UI. What's the point in "automatic" context detection if you need to set a huge list of settings first?
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