Weather plasmoids ...

[Hans Chen]

Also, due to a change in the BBC feeds (as far as I know), the search in
some weather widgets are broken. This is fixed in 4.4, but since yawp etc.
have their own release cycle they're likely already fixed.

With best regards,
Hans Chen

On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 19:04, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:

> On December 31, 2009, Andreas Scherf wrote:
> > So whats about collection weather information via a single interface?
>
> it's called a DataEngine and it already exists for weather.
>
> the reason why some of the weather applets out there show more data than
> others is multiple and includes:
>
> * some widgets that implement their own weather data fetching are using the
> sources of data illegally according to the terms and services of the owners
> of
> that data as published on their websites. obviously we can't be quite so
> cavalier upstream
>
> * some widgets have decided to implement their own data gathering systems
> instead of working on the shared one (the weather DataEngine)
>
> my recommendation to you is to find new sources of data and implement
> plugins
> for them for the weather DataEngine. that's what the fellow who worked on
> the
> wetter.com plugin did, to the benefit of all in 4.4
>
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