yaWP (Yet Another Weather Plasmoid)

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Description:

Yet Another Weather Plasmoid.
There is nothing wrong with the ones that exist, I just wanted something more colorful.

This plasmoid belongs to other people, it would not be where it is without their help. See the README.

Please help with additional themes and translations, thanks.

For the latest unstable version:
svn co https://yawp.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/yawp/trunk yawp

INSTALL NOTES
tar -jxf yawp*
cd yawp*
./install.sh

Last changelog:

7 years ago

0.4.5 (23 Mar 2013)
* Bugfix: Desktop mode is not reusing applet size from last session.
* Bugfix: yaWP crashes in systemtray with KDE 4.10

0.4.4 (17 Mar 2012)
* New desktop painter has been added. Yawp can be configured to use the traditional or the new one for desktop and/or for popup window.
* Panel painter has been rewritten
* Initialization stuff of yawp has been moved to init method, because yawp crashes on KDE 4.8 due to the usage of not initialized components.
* Usage of KMessageBox has been replaced within DlgAddCity, otherwise yawp crashes on KDE 4.8.5 (some earlier versions might be included as well).
Using KMessageBoxes within KConfigDialog (yawp settings dialog) still works as expected.
* Google ION has been removed, because Google does not support this service any longer.
* Updating and fixing translations
* Bugfix: yaWP did not update weatherdata periodically after hibernation - it is working now

0.4.3 (17 Apr 2012)
* Show current RealFeel temperature under current temperature (thanks to Alain Soucy)
* Non-modale city search dialog
* Implementing public slot configChanged() to behave like a standard plasmoid - yaWP can be configured from external programs (e.g.: javascript)
* changing internal handling of extender (KDE 4.8 only) - when plasmoid will be used in desktop mode extender is not used and will be destroyed, when plasmoid is moved to panel a new extender will be created
* little tweaks to horizontal panel layout, adding more spaces between icons
* Ukrainian translation updated (Thanks to Yuri Chornoivan)

0.4.2 (04 Jan 2012)
* Adapting yaWP to KDE 4.8
* ION AccuWeather is showing closer maps for cities of the United States.
* Workaround crashes in city search dialog in KDE >= 4.7.4
* Frech and Slovak trasnlation updated
* Fixes in Wunderground ION
* Fix double translation for Short day names

0.4.1 (03 Dec 2011)
* Add ability to open forecast in browser (if URL is provided by ION)
* ION wunderground is returning a sorted list of cities (airport stations are listed on top of list,
because in general terms this station type contains more weather information than the personal weather station type).
* ION Wunderground is supporting satellite maps as well
* ION accuweather is not using a config-file for satellite image mapping any longer (feature has been added in version 0.4.0
but I think this was a stupid idea). Satellite images will be hard coded mapped to location in ION.
* Translations updated (CZ, FR)
* Several little bug fixes - including geometry issues

0.4.0 (13 Nov 2011)
* Bugfix: text in animation area jumps up or down at start and at the end of animation
* applets painting methods has been extracted and rewritten, for re-use and hopefully the new painting methods are well structured
* yaWP supports externder items (in panel mode only) - extender item interacts with user like desktop mode.
In panel mode:
When user clicks on the applet (but not on the weather forecast icons) the extender pops up.
The behavior of the applet for clicking on the weather forecast icons can be configured in the config dialog on page "Panel"
option "Use interactive weather icons". When this option is checked the weather icon will toggle between day and night
(in case we have weather information for day and night) otherwise the extender will appear.
* Removes old files from cache directory $HOME/.cache/yawp on a regular base.
* The install script install.sh uses more CPU cores if available. Could be override by -j script option.
* Turkish translation (thanks to Hasan Kiran)
* Czech, Slovak and French translation updated
* Changing unit system in config dialog will force auto-update.
* AccuWeather will use a config file for satellite mapping.

0.3.6 (12 Dec 2010)
* Traverse through all locations periodically (optional)
* Page 'Settings' from config-dialog has been redesigned to gain more space
* Fixing update bug in Wunderground Ion.
* Algorithm that is doing the text layout for the details area has been simplified
* Fix API breakage in 4.5.2/4.6

0.3.5 (8 Oct 2010)
* Fix compilation error on KDE 4.5.2
* Patching ions to work with new weather-data-engine, thanks to Raymond Wooninck
* Fixing legal issues (The source code of the standard ions used as the base)
* Ion is checking state of pressure, instead of just coping the data
* Fix issues with sunrise/sunset
* Prefer millimeters of mecrcury to torr on KDE 4.5
* Fix KDE version check - consistently use KDE_IS_VERSION

0.3.4 (7 Jul 2010)
* Fix torr description.
* Fix problems with some ions when yawp runs under ru locale
* Fix compilation error on PCBSD (thanks vvheritagevv) for patch.
* Update translations cs, fr, sk

0.3.3 (12 Jun 2010)

* Added word-wrap for details-property.
* Added new ion for wunderground weather service
* Showing observation time (the time when weather-service-provider has been updated the weather data) on details page, when specific ion supports this feature.
Ion Google, AccuWeather and Wunderground returning observation time, as well.
* Timestamps for sunrise and sunset will be returned in the new timestamp format (when compiling with kde 4.3 and above - timestamps in the standard ions had been changed)
* Google is returning more information of location to show the right flag. User needs to entered a more specific search text to add a new city.
* Timezone management
* Fix compilation problems with gcc 4.5 (thanks to Kai Wasserbäch)
* Translations updated: fr, pl(Maciej Bulik), sk, de, cs
* Added Ukrainian translation (thanks to Yuri Chornoivan)
* Various bugfixes and small improvements

0.3.2
* Added support for KDE 4.4 (including docking in systray)
* Fix text shadow for light themes
* A new Compact panel layout
* Translations updated: cs, fr, ru
* Some small fixes

0.3.1
* Fixed bug in accuweather engine.

0.3.0
* Totally rewritten - Big thanks to udev.
* Plasma weather engines support - accuweather and google engines included
* Multicity support

Issues of 0.3.x:
* KDE 4.4 is not supported yet !
* Translation files needs update.

0.2.3
* Satellite image in tooltip can be dissabled
* Polish translation added - thanks to Maciej Bulik
* Fixed unit conversion functions to be on sync with accuweather.com - Thanks to Maciej Bulik for report.
* Russian, French and Czech translation updated.
* Licence mess cleaned.

0.2.2
* Fix for the icon sizing issue in KDE 4.2.2 and 4.2.67 - thanks to Daniel Rocher
* Solid support for network - thanks to John Stamp
* Panel tooltip redesign, show much more informations now
* Dialog sizing issue fixed
* Removed obsolete KIO workaround
* Translations updated: French, Slovak, Czech and Russian

0.2.1
* Fixed several panel sizing issues
* Custom colors support
* YaWP should be now usable with light themes (like Aya)

0.2
* Panel support
* Many bugfixes and improvements

0.1.65
* With help. Please see DEVELOPERS in README.

0.0.6
* Many attempts ....

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vljubovic
8 years ago

Hello,
I installed YAWP 0.4.3 on Kubuntu 12.04. Now I have a big piece of blank space in my systray (the part of panel with audio volume etc.) It can't be moved around because it's a part of systray. I tried adding and removing applets, removing everything from systray and readding, restarted Plasma, logged out and in etc. Whatever I do there is about 200 pixels of space that doesn't respond to left or right clicks. YAWP shows fine in systray.

I would like to keep using your plasmoid, please help :)

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udev
8 years ago

I think I experience the same behaviour when I change the number of forecast icons or change whether I want to see icons, temperature or both for current weather and forecast icons. Have you tried to resize the panel that contains the systray (throught context menue -> "Panel Options" -> "Panel Settings")? In my case this is forcing the systray to updating its layout and size - so it looks like this is a bug in the panel and systray which do not updating its layout when one of its child applet changing its size.

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vljubovic
8 years ago

Hello,
Thanks for response. I can't send you a screenshot because some restarts solved the issue. It's definitely related to configuration changes, whenever I change number or type of icons I get varying amounts of whitespace left and right. But now YAWP is configured the way I like so I'm not touching it anymore :)

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udev
8 years ago

I might update to kubuntu 12.04 this or next weekend, so I'm able to test it on my own system. Can you publish a picutre of it or tell us your configuration (horizontal or vertical panel, number of forecast days, are you showing icons and temperature)? Have you tried to show only current day with icon or current temperature - in this case yawp will collapse to an icon size and systray should not have layout problems with it.

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n0x
8 years ago

Hi,
I have a small question=) Is it possible to change font size, when widget on a panel and show only temperature? Because I don't know why, but my font looks very big and there is no way to change it. http://imagebin.org/212437

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udev
8 years ago

How does the fonts / text size of the other applets in your panel look like? We use the default plasma font. You can change this font through kde4-systemsettings (open application systemsettings - select icon "Application Appearance" - select item "Fonts" (General). The font size in YaWP will be calculated and depends on applet size. Sorry for late response. Your screenshot is not accessible any longer :(

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n0x
8 years ago

better late, than never :) I upload another screenshot here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17051706/sample.png
All icons looks good, but yaWP's text size too big and fill almost all panel height. Is this normal? Because i saw some screenshots, and text was much smaller than mine. Thanks for answer. Your plasmoid is awesome!

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udev
8 years ago

Your are right, text of current temperature is really a little bit to big (space below the text should be the same like above the text)

Have you tried to resize the panel to force the panel to do a relayout? Sometimes I noticed that the panel does not pass all events to the applets...

Have you tried other fonts as well?

When above things does not work, you might want to adjust the source code...
The text for current temperature will be/shoulb be vertical centered. So you might want to experiment with modifing the the following line in applet/painter/panelpainter.cpp at line 37
#define HORIZONTAL_TODAYS_TEMPERATURE 0.90f
and replace the value with some smaller one (e.g.: 0.70f). After modifing this line, you need to re-compile and re-install the applet.

Cheers

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n0x
8 years ago

Yeah I tried resize the panel and change font, but nothing helps. Now I adjusted scale coefficient (0.65 good for me) and re-compile applet. That's really what I need! Thanks a lot for your advice and for great applet. keep it up!

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yurchor
8 years ago

Updated Ukrainian translation can be found here:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/55247264/uk.po

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mkyral
8 years ago

Commited, thanks.

A time for a new release?

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udev
8 years ago

Yes, I think it might be a good time :)

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mkyral
8 years ago

So finally released. Sorry for the delay.

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gzu
8 years ago

Hi,

Is there anyway to change the font, I can't see that option.

Thanks,

gzu

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mkyral
8 years ago

Hi,
there is no such option. We are using system font.

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antoniolucas
8 years ago

when i put it in the systray of a vertical panel, it messes it up. the tray tries to be on horizontal (so i can see almost nothing of the tray). If I remove yawp, the systray get back to normal.
thanks for the great job.

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udev
8 years ago

Thanks for the bug report. I never noticed it, because I rarely test this combination. It is working perfectly in horizontally systray (even with forecast icons/temps). When I configure yawp to show just current icon and no forecast information in panel mode, than it is working in vertical systray as well, even when systray is using more than one column. Therefore I think the layout management of systray for vertical panel mode is not working properly. Unfortunately I do not know another plasmoid that can be shown in systray and which needs more space than just for an icon.
Since yawp is working in vertical panel mode and plasmoids do not care about whether they live in systray or not (System tray support can be added to all plasmoids just adding another entry ind desktop-file, no modification in source code is necessary) I doubt that yawp is causing the problem...the only workaround for this behaviour that comes to my mind is to force yawp in vertical panel mode and when living in a containment to collapse to current icon only.

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mutlucan96
8 years ago

I want change this icons.

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udev
8 years ago

There are two further themes in trunk:
svn co https://yawp.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/yawp/trunk yawp

Themes can be changed through config dialog.

But feel free to create another theme and share it with the community :)

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mkyral
8 years ago

Sorry, which icons? You can create your own icon theme (or use already created themes from the download section)

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gericom
9 years ago

It's great plasmoid and one of my favs, but it really miss one feature, that most weather applets/plasmoids has - The "feels like" temperature, something, that CWP has and i want YAWP have it too! :)
Greetings!

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udev
9 years ago

The "real feel" temperature is a value that AccuWeather supports. YaWP is showing this value in the details window for high/low temperature. We already noticed, that yaWP is not showing the "real feel" temperature for current temperature - but I do not know where to place this value - maybe in the details window, as well - we also could show the current temperature a little bit smaller and put real feel temp right next to it: (e.g.: "*5°")

However as far as I know this is a value that the weather provider needs to support and we are not able to calculate...

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gericom
9 years ago

I know that weather provider should support it, but as far, as i can see, Accuweather, Google, weather.com, let's say it 95% of them are supporting it, so it's matter of design - an 8-sized number under the actual temperature, or next to it in a brackets, something like that, check CWP and you will understand what i mean. Thanx in advance!

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udev
9 years ago

Has been implemented in trunk 534 and 535...

CWP is using its own proprietary dataengine downloading website and parsing the page using tools like grep, awk, sed,.... This is the reason, while CWP needs to update every time a provider is changing the website layout...
Providers used to show more information on its own websites, than they provide users through weather services.

Yawp on the other hand is using KDE'S plugin weather data engine (called ION) and this ION's do not support real feel temperature yet...only our own ION accuweather. All ION's interact with a weather data service provider to request the information.

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