porting liquid weather to plasma

[Shawn Starr]

Hi Matt, 

I wrote the weather dataengine stuff for my plasma applet. I couldn't use weather.com unless they gave me explicit rights to 
use their data freely which I was not able to get a reply from.

my code is all C++ though, the engine API is different then what liquidweather++ had.

Shawn.

----- Original Message ----
From: Matt
To:
Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 5:16:14 PM
Subject: porting liquid weather to plasma

Hi,

I'm 
the 
guy 
who 
wrote 
(most 
of) 
liquid 
weather.  
Currently 
it's 
languishing 
as 
a 
superkaramba 
theme, 
as 
I 
don't 
have 
a 
lot 
of 
time 
to 
maintain 
it, 
and 
it's 
a 
complete 
kludgy 
mess.  
I'd 
quite 
like 
to 
start 
from 
scratch 
and 
rewrite 
it 
for 
plasma, 
but 
don't 
quite 
know 
where 
to 
start.

Basically, 
I 
only 
know 
python 
(and 
a 
very 
small 
subset 
of 
python 
at 
that).  
I've 
read 
somewhere 
that 
someone's 
written 
a 
weather 
data 
engine, 
but 
I 
don't 
know 
if 
it 
hooks 
into 
the 
weather.com 
xml 
feed.  
This 
seems 
to 
be 
the 
most 
sensible 
data 
source 
to 
use, 
as 
it 
is 
xml 
based 
and 
therefore 
easier 
to 
parse 
than 
scraping 
websites.  
However, 
it 
is 
subject 
to 
a 
license, 
which 
I 
don't 
think 
is 
incompatible 
with 
plasma, 
however, 
maybe 
incompatible 
with 
use 
as 
a 
generic 
data 
engine 
for 
other 
applets 
to 
hook 
into.

If 
I'm 
to 
retain 
a 
lot 
of 
the 
functionality 
of 
liquidweather, 
I'd 
like 
to 
also 
retain 
a 
lot 
of 
the 
configurability 
of 
it 
- 
I'm 
not 
sure 
what 
facilities 
plasma 
provides 
for 
configuration 
dialogs, 
but 
hopefully 
it 
can 
accommodate 
my 
needs.

Is 
there 
a 
way 
to 
write 
plasma 
applets 
in 
python 
yet?  
I 
know 
that 
plasma 
can, 
or 
will 
be 
able 
to, 
load 
superkaramba 
themes, 
however, 
as 
I 
say 
above, 
liquidweather 
is 
currently 
collapsing 
under 
its 
own 
weight, 
and 
I'd 
like 
to 
start 
anew, 
and 
try 
to 
take 
advantage 
of 
some 
of 
the 
features 
of 
plasma.

Is 
there 
a 
website 
that 
can 
help 
to 
get 
me 
started?  
Sorry, 
these 
questions 
are 
probably 
answered 
somewhere, 
but 
I've 
been 
away 
from 
things 
for 
a 
while, 
and 
am 
not 
fully 
up 
to 
speed 
with 
where 
things 
are 
at.


-- 
Regards

Matt
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