kweather

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> On Wed November 29 2006 12:04 am, Mark Grieveson wrote:
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>> > Hello. I decided to give KDE a try. I cannot get the kweather panel
>> > applet to work, however. Does anyone have any clues as to what I should
>> > do?
>>
>
> It works for me here although with the testing/unstable version I need to edit
> the config by hand to get my preferred location. What does/doesn't happen?
>

When I open "Configure KWeather", I enter the city in, which, in the
configure window, appears to be fine. However, the panel applet
displays a question mark icon, and the Weather Report that is given
states: "Station reports that it needs maintenance. Please try a
different one." Attempting to update gives the error, "the requested
station does not exist."

Where is the config file that you're speaking of? I did find
/usr/share/apps/kweatherservice/stations.dat, but the ICAO used for
Toronto, Ontario, appears to be correct (that being CYYZ). The rest of
it I was unable to verify, though. I also tried changing the
/home/mark/.kde/share/config/weather_panelappletrc file, which initially
read:

[General Options]
log_file_name=
logging=false
report_location=0000
reportview_size=450,325
smallview_mode=3

I changed the location line: "report_location=CYYZ" (I also tried lower
case). This too failed.

So, I'm stumped. Please lemme know what you did to fix kweather on your
machine.

Thanks,

Mark

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> I changed the location line: "report_location=CYYZ" (I also tried lower
> > case). This too failed.
>
>
> That's what I do to get my location. On first run I add the applet to the
> panel to create that config file then remove it from the panel, change the
> report location manually and add the applet again then it works as expected.
>
>
>> > So, I'm stumped. Please lemme know what you did to fix kweather on your
>> > machine.
>>
>
> I hope that will work for you since I don't remember doing anything else.
>

Thanks, that did work. I had previously tried changing the location
line of the file when kweather was still active on the panel. It would
always undo my changes, returning the location to "0000". Following
your advice, I removed it from the panel, and then changed the location
line. When I added it to the panel, it worked. Yes, now I know that it
is raining, 3 degrees, and miserable outside.

Thanks,
Mark

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