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projects:panel-plugins:xfce4-weather-plugin [2014/10/27 17:47] – [Icon themes] hjudt | projects:panel-plugins:xfce4-weather-plugin [2017/02/16 21:11] – [0.8.8 (2016-08-31)] hjudt | ||
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Originally written by Bob Schlärmann, | Originally written by Bob Schlärmann, | ||
- | **Attention: | + | **Attention: |
===== Usage ===== | ===== Usage ===== | ||
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The first time you open the configuration dialog, the weather plugin automatically configures itself to fetch weather data from a place which should be near you - based on your IP address. It will also try to determine the units used in your country, but you can alter these on the units page. | The first time you open the configuration dialog, the weather plugin automatically configures itself to fetch weather data from a place which should be near you - based on your IP address. It will also try to determine the units used in your country, but you can alter these on the units page. | ||
- | You can change this location using the Change... button and searching for the city, country, address, monument etc. you're interested in. Only latitude, longitude and altitude will be used for the data requests, so you can change the location name to something you like. There' | + | You can change this location using the Change... button and searching for the city, country, address, monument etc. you're interested in. Only latitude, longitude and altitude will be used for the data requests, so you can change the location name to something you like. There is a further tab for appearance |
On the panel icon, a middle click forces an update, left click brings up a forecast and details page. Right-clicking opens the contextual menu. | On the panel icon, a middle click forces an update, left click brings up a forecast and details page. Right-clicking opens the contextual menu. | ||
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There are a lot of tooltips describing the options and values available. | There are a lot of tooltips describing the options and values available. | ||
- | **NOTE:** To save power, the plugin stops animation and deactivates other CPU-consuming settings when your laptop is on battery. Remember this when you try to change settings, as some results may only be visible when the A/C adapter is attached! | + | **NOTE:** To save power, the plugin stops animation and deactivates other CPU-consuming settings when your laptop is on battery. Remember this when you try to change settings, as some results may only be visible when the A/C adapter is attached! |
===== Screenshots ===== | ===== Screenshots ===== | ||
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+ | ===== Known Problems ===== | ||
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+ | ==== The temperature and/or other values reported are not correct ==== | ||
+ | In short: Given that the chosen location parameters are correct, this is caused by the quality of the datasource used (met.no), and there is nothing the plugin can do about it. | ||
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+ | Long explanation: | ||
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+ | Of course, the current author is aware that this is not an optimal solution, and today certainly better solutions are available. Therefore, future 0.9.x versions of the plugin will use data from openweathermap.org. However, work on such a new version has not began yet, and will take a while because it includes other necessary tasks like migration from gtk2 to gtk3. | ||
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+ | ==== Text in the forecast window is cut off ==== | ||
+ | If you're using a higher than standard DPI, which you can set with xfce4-appearance-settings (more easily accessible in the Xfce settings dialog), it might happen that some text in the forecast window is cut off. Unfortunately, | ||
===== Recent Releases ===== | ===== Recent Releases ===== | ||
- | ==== 0.8.4 (to be released soon) ==== | + | ==== 0.8.9 (2017-02-16) ==== |
+ | - Bump LocationforecastLTS version | ||
+ | - Fix two compiler warnings about implicit declarations of functions | ||
+ | - Change more URLs from http:// | ||
+ | - Translation updates: Basque, Croatian, Czech, Occitan, Slovak | ||
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+ | ==== 0.8.8 (2016-08-31) ==== | ||
+ | * Use https:// | ||
+ | * Translation updates: Catalan, Indonesian, Korean, Lithuanian, Slovak, Swedish | ||
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+ | ==== 0.8.7 (2016-04-21) ==== | ||
+ | * Use met.no sunrise-1.1 API (bug #12333) | ||
+ | * Translation updates: Catalan, Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Korean, Lithuanian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish | ||
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+ | ==== 0.8.6 (2015-06-23) ==== | ||
+ | * Add ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS to Makefile.am | ||
+ | * Remove negative sign when temperature is rounded to 0 °F (bug #11604) | ||
+ | * Fix IT_PROG_INTLTOOL warning | ||
+ | * Translation updates: Asturian, Bulgarian, French, Greek, Icelandic, Lithuanian, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish | ||
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+ | ==== 0.8.5 (2014-12-23) ==== | ||
+ | * Many translation updates | ||
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+ | ==== 0.8.4 (2014-11-03) ==== | ||
+ | * Improve UI feedback when resetting weather data | ||
* Show API deprecation warnings in the details tab of the summary window instead of the standard output | * Show API deprecation warnings in the details tab of the summary window instead of the standard output | ||
* Support upower-0.99 (bug #10922) | * Support upower-0.99 (bug #10922) |