Weather plasmoid development

[Edwin de Jong]

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.

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.

For the rest: I really welcome new ideas!

Regards,

Edwin de Jong



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