Re: [rox-users] [ANN] New applet: Weather

[Abrolag <ab...@us...>]

On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:28:43 +0200
Dennis Tomas <2t...@in...> wrote:

> Abrolag wrote:
> > On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 13:41:11 +0200
> > Dennis Tomas <2t...@in...> wrote:
> >   
> >> Weather is a new panel applet that shows the weather. It shows a 
> >> forecast when clicked.
> >>
> >>
> >> You can install it by dragging this url to AddApp:
> >>
> >> http://rox4debian.berlios.de/0install/Weather.xml
> >>
> >>
> >> or by downloading the tarball:
> >>
> >> ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/rox4debian/apps/Weather-0.1.tgz
> >>     
> >
> > I like this but there do seem to be some anomalies.
> >
> > If I select Maidstone as the location it gives me forecasts for
> > Southend.
> >   
> I think this is due to weather.com picking the nearest station.

I had a feeling you would say something like that :)

Some of the juxtapositions are curious !

> > Also, it is quite slow to fetch info from the Internet, but gives no
> > progress information. When using dialup there is a very long delay
> > before the icon appears so at first I thought it hadn't launched -
> > with predictable results.
> >   
> I've now made it show the "not available" icon at startup and delayed 
> the first update that seemed to block the displaying of the applet. The 
> new version 0.2.1 is now available.

Downloaded it... I like the changes.
 
> > When trying to change location I get a gtk error if the forecast window
> > is still open.
> >   
> Strange. I can't reproduce this. What error do you get?


Neither can I now. I don't know if it was something in the older
version or just 'one of life's mysteries' (tm)

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W J G