lug_: Summary Weather data in Evolution

[Kiggundu Mukasa]

Something had always been bugging me about evolution.  I could not get a Ugandan weather summary.

If you to to Tools ---> Settings --> Summary Preferences --> Weather
You can choose Africa and have only South Africa (south of the sahara as a choice).
After some googling I found there is file (which in SuSE is in) /opt/gnome2/share/evolution/1.4/Locations

Edit this file and add your cities.  The trick is to get the 4 letter code for your city.  I found a web page that gave the 4 letter code as the ending of the web page
http://weatherpixie.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=6b72da40ce24826032e5f0108226a4e0&htm=0&type=&trooper=1&lang=&region=1&country=Uganda&place=HUEN
So for Entebbe the code is HUEN  for Arua the code is HUAR for Nairobi the code is HKJK

So go down the Location file until you find Morocoo, then do a cut and paste and replace with the relevant cities you want.

make a backup of "Locations" before you edit so if you screw up you can backtrack.

Now I have a huge set of cities.  Will see over the next few days if it tells as much truth as our local weather guys.

Kiggs

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