On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 8:00 AM, Marco Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 17 September 2008, Edwin de Jong wrote: >> Hi everyone, (cross-posting to plasma-devel and kde-artists) >> >> In short: I wondered: if you're an artist with svg skills if you like to >> help me with the weather plasmoid and if you're from the plasma-devs list >> to give an opinion. Oh, and to you all for ideas and such. >> >> In the coming days I'll be busy with the weather plasmoid. I already >> overhauled quite a lot of the code, recreated the configuration GUI, made >> it dockable in the panels and the fonts and colours are settable now. It >> even resizes nicely. > sooo, is a modification of the current applet? a new one? is Shawn aware of > this? (wouldn't be better working together, isn't it?:)
Lets be serious here, anyone working on the "official" weather plasmoid has ended up bogged down in wacky details and implementation issues and an applet that should have been produced a year ago is still all sorts of broken. >> >> Tomorrow I expect also the location chooser to work nicely in a treeview to >> select your continent, country and city. Besides this I plan to make it >> show the weather forecast. >> >> I wondered, for those of you with svg skills, if you wanted to work on some >> extra 'gadgets' around the plasmoid, such as a working wind vane, >> thermometer, etc. etc. There is already a set of icons for the weather >> conditions. The deal is: you give me the svg files, I'll *try* to code them >> in :) >> >> I already made a wind-direction indicator thingy in svg which we could >> try to work on further... The problem just is, I either work on the code, >> or on the svg, but not both at the same time. The indicator svg file is in >> the attachment. >> >> For the plasma developers: the widget essentially pulls its data from >> weather.yahoo.com. I hope that is not a problem? It's not really in line >> with the OSS spirit, but the widget in KDE 3 did more or less the same. >> Also, I wouldn't really know where else to get the data from. > it's a new dataengine? (hope the data fetching isn't directly into the > applet:) > btw the problem is not much if it's in line of the oss spirit, there are > already applets that pull data from commercial services like twitter. > the problem is if yahoo terms of use permits to do so, often they are sooo > unclear that is even difficult to know if we are allowed (that's why there > aren't engines that pulls data from weather.com for instance) > > Cheers, > Marco Martin > >> >> For the rest: I really welcome new ideas! >> >> Regards, >> >> Edwin de Jong > > > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel > _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel