Weather plasmoid development

[Shawn Starr]

----- Original Message ----

From: Dan Meltzer <parallelgrapefruit at gmail.com>
To: plasma-devel at kde.org
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 8:42:10 AM
Subject: Re: Weather plasmoid development

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 8:00 AM, Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com> 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.

It's being developed. The problem is Plasma didnt have the API needed to do this right. I should note Marco Martin is working with me on the layouting.

Then there's the problem of layouting, we have issues with this still.

Thanks, 
Shawn.