"Weather" section enhancements/improvements suggestions...

los93sol · 2005-09-30 03:31

this is really quite useless but i thought it would be cool, i was browsing through the cvs and realized chokemaniac has several my weather background images for the home screen, specifically i noticed one for fall and one for winter. anyways what i was thinking is it might be kind of cool and sleek to have a conditional tag to change an image based on a predetermined date (in this case dates for each season) so on the first day of fall you would have a background image that compliments the fall, on the first day of winter your background image would change to something that compliments the winter, same for spring and summer. just an idea i thought would be kind of cool and somewhat useful for those of us who can't seem to remember when a season actually starts. Tongue

i realize this wouldn't be a priority of any of the devs, but it might be a good project for a third party dev or something that might be interesting enough for an official dev to spend a little time on. Smile

regards,
los93sol

carlos007 · 2006-04-02 12:04

can more be done with the weather option? being a brit and having our obession for weather i think this is one menu option left undeveloped for ages. nice touch on the pimped edition of having the temperature on the main menu page!
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could we have more than 3 city options? i'd like to browse a few places where we have been or have friends (saddo i know).

anyone got any other suggestions for expanding on this much under rated feature? an on/off button for the rain outside for example?

Livin · 2007-04-23 00:32

Would love to see...

Integrated Weather Maps
5 & 10 day forecasts
intra-day forecast (hours within the day
- see MSN page for example.

All info can be grabbed from weather.MSN.com

I like this layout since it give everything in a clean format...
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PsyberOne · 2007-04-23 22:21

There are 2 weather applets for Linux [gnome weather applet|xfce weather applet] that grab info from weather.com including radar, 7day overview, 5day summary and detailed local information. So there has to be a way to scrape more info than what's shown in the current weather pane. I'll try and locate the code for each and post the links.

Livin · 2007-04-29 23:36

anyone else interested in having a more robust Weather section?

rramoutar · 2007-04-30 01:46

I am. I like the accuweather script...but this only works in the US. A Radar map and local weather warning with global functionality would be cool.

Livin Posting Freak Posts: 3,446 Joined: May 2004 Reputation: 17 Location: above ground	2007-04-23 00:32 Post: #53 Would love to see... Integrated Weather Maps 5 & 10 day forecasts intra-day forecast (hours within the day - see MSN page for example. All info can be grabbed from weather.MSN.com I like this layout since it give everything in a clean format... I'm not an expert but I play one at work.
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PsyberOne Member Posts: 52 Joined: Jan 2006 Reputation: 0	2007-04-23 22:21 Post: #54 There are 2 weather applets for Linux [gnome weather applet\|xfce weather applet] that grab info from weather.com including radar, 7day overview, 5day summary and detailed local information. So there has to be a way to scrape more info than what's shown in the current weather pane. I'll try and locate the code for each and post the links.
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Livin Posting Freak Posts: 3,446 Joined: May 2004 Reputation: 17 Location: above ground	2007-04-29 23:36 Post: #55 anyone else interested in having a more robust Weather section? I'm not an expert but I play one at work.
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rramoutar Junior Member Posts: 4 Joined: Apr 2007 Reputation: 0	2007-04-30 01:46 Post: #56 I am. I like the accuweather script...but this only works in the US. A Radar map and local weather warning with global functionality would be cool.
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