Quality Team: LCD weather station and calendar (in panel) are really broken

[Ben Cooksley]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Anne-Marie Mahfouf
<annemarie.mahfouf at free.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The LCD Weather Station applet is in a non working state and the Quality
> Team thinks it cannot be shipped as it is. The problem is that two providers
> which cover Europe had an API change (and some freedom restrictions?) thus

More than just Europe is affected - anywhere in the Asia-Pacific
region is broken as well.
I suspect the only region which does work is North America, courtesy
of the NOAA resource.

I am not sure if Wetter ever provided current situation data - but the
BBC resource did.

> the applet can't display any information for a lot of locations. I know it's
> the data engine code the culprit but the consequence is a non working
> applet.
> See https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300885 (Weather Station Applet does
> not work anymore with bbcuk or wetter.com provider)
>
> Another applet is in bad shape as well: the Calendar applet when placed in
> panel. The date does not update when the day changes and the layout is
> totally broken making the calendar not readable. See
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=236874 and
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285362
>
> We hope these can be fixed as well as the regressions regularly sent to the
> list.
>
> Best regards,

Regards,
Ben Cooksley

>
> Anne-Marie
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