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Currently there are a lot of different parts of KDE that use your current location on Earth. This includes all of the weather widgets, your time zone, your holidays for the plasma clocks, all of the plasma weather widgets, and marble. I think, rather than making people input this information separately in each of these, your user profile should have a single entry that tells all of KDE where you are located on Earth.

There is an easy solution for people who do not want to use that location everywhere. Similar to how plasma clocks by default use your local time zone but let you set a different one, different parts of KDE that use location should by default use your current location but give you the option to set a different one.

This could be tied into the geolocating feature that Aaron has been working on, automatically changing this location if you have a GPS connected to your computer. It could even be set to automatically update when you connect to the internet by checking your IP address. But for those without GPS hardware and who either aren't connected to the internet or don't want to use these features they can at least set their current location manually.

I agree.
A bit of rant: I just can't get my show my right location. It keeps defaulting back to Belgrade from Ljubljana. It's not that big of a difference, but still.
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A Geolocation data engine will ship with KDE 4.3.