New weather desklet

wdreinhart · Guru Joined: 11 Jun 2003 Posts: 569 Location: 4QFJ12345678

I just found this on http://gdesklets.gnomedesktop.org this afternoon. It's a nice weather applet for gDesklets that displays a 5-day forecast as well as current conditions. It's neat.
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[img:93947d69a3]http://people.roqe.org/kr/misc/GoodWeather-shots.png[/img:93947d69a3]

The Mountain Man · l33t Joined: 03 Sep 2003 Posts: 643

Sweet! Can that work with KDE?
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cato` · Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2003 12:55 am Post subject:

Looks really nice! But I can't get gdesklets to work in openbox3 .. :cry:

Achilles · Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2003 1:41 am Post subject:

Wow, this one looks a lot better than the one I currently use. We need it in portage!

Achilles · Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2003 2:00 am Post subject:

Just installed it... how do you get the border around it and the icons to be spaced out? For me, the little sun or cloud or whatever icon covers up the text.

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Corky · Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2003 3:39 am Post subject:

Nice, I have downloaded and installed this desklet, and it looks really cool, the only problem is setting the location code, does anyone know how I find the location code for my (or any other area), they are not in any format I recognize (like airport codes). Cheers
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Corky · Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2003 3:44 am Post subject:

Nevermind, I've found it now, I should have been more observant :oops:

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Obz · Retired Dev Joined: 11 Jun 2002 Posts: 274

although my usual policy is to hold back on desklets that are new, giving them some time to become stable etc, this one looks really good :)

Chickpea · l33t Joined: 03 Jun 2002 Posts: 846 Location: Vancouver WA

This is beautiful and I am happy that someone made this. I was going to try and convert the kde weather app but it would have taken forever as I dont know any programming.

Thanks for the great work!

Dracnor · Guru Joined: 08 Jun 2003 Posts: 397 Location: Pennsylvania

This desklet is very useful...completely replaced my prior weather 'let

Guru · Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2003 4:07 am Post subject:

Obz · Retired Dev Joined: 11 Jun 2002 Posts: 274

Committed now, should get round once the rsync mirrors sync up.

DMM · n00b Joined: 06 Aug 2003 Posts: 50

What will the ebuild be called, GoodWeather or goodweather or something different? (i.e. emerge $WHATS_IT_CALLED)

Yeah, Im a noob.

Obz · Retired Dev Joined: 11 Jun 2002 Posts: 274

The ebuild is prefixed desklet-, as with all of the other desklets, so in this case becomes desklet-goodweather. It resides with all of the other desklet- packages in x11-plugins/.

The sole exception is the core library which exists in gnome-extra/gdesklets-core.

viperlin · Veteran Joined: 15 Apr 2003 Posts: 1319 Location: UK

just installed it anyway, using UKXX0092 for the code, is that right (the code from the weather.com URL for Manchester, UK ???
it's just not displaying anything, will wait until it refreshes but somethings telling me it's not working, i'll see when i get back from college

viperlin · Veteran Joined: 15 Apr 2003 Posts: 1319 Location: UK

nope, it's not working :-(

idea's?

EDIT: needs me to restart gdesklets every time it wants to update :-|

merlinBSD · Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2003 9:01 pm Post subject:

very nice indeed

I always liked the liquid icons

which were not on previous weather desklets

just rocks!

viperlin · Veteran Joined: 15 Apr 2003 Posts: 1319 Location: UK

yeh i know, but mines not updating the info @ all :cry:

cato` · Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2003 11:21 pm Post subject:

viperlin · Veteran Joined: 15 Apr 2003 Posts: 1319 Location: UK

mine loads the desklet but the information is not refreshed, i do not know the units of the config though, i have it set to refresh every 10, but i don't know what this is, (10 what, hours, mins, seconds ???)
when the desklet is first loaded it gets the information, then it does not update/refresh

wdreinhart · Guru Joined: 11 Jun 2003 Posts: 569 Location: 4QFJ12345678

That's odd, It refreshes itself every half-hour or so on my machine. I think the units for the refresh interval are minutes, since mine is set to 30.

merlinBSD · Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2003 7:31 am Post subject:

im in malaysia and mine works jus fine...
did u do a emerge -up gdesklets-core?
I did that a couple of days ago coz my version was kinda outdated
Also I am not using the ebuild (rade the post very fast at first... blame on me...)

viperlin · Veteran Joined: 15 Apr 2003 Posts: 1319 Location: UK

yes i did, it also had some other masked dependancies but i upgraded them to.

cato` · Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2003 3:14 pm Post subject:

GoodWeather 0.2 is out...
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