Re: [orca-list] GNOME Weather applet?

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Mario:

I don't see a way to modify the GNOME Weather applet.  :-(  I needed a
short break from stuff that was spinning my head around, though, so I
took a look at a way for you to add your own keyboard command to speak
the result of calling a command line application.  In this case, I used
'weather', which I grabbed via "sudo apt-get install weather-util" on
Ubuntu.

Here's what I put in my ~/.orca/orca-customizations.py file.  It binds
Insert+w to the weather as output by the weather application.  I see
that Concord NH has 16MPH winds with gusts up to 24MPH.  That's going to
make the bike races a challenge tonight.

import commands
import orca.input_event
import orca.keybindings
import orca.orca
import orca.speech
from orca.orca_i18n import _

def sayWeather(script, inputEvent=None):
    message = commands.getoutput("weather con | tail -4")
    orca.speech.speak(message)
    return True

sayWeatherHandler = orca.input_event.InputEventHandler(
    sayWeather,
    _("Prints weather information."))

myKeyBindings = orca.keybindings.KeyBindings()

myKeyBindings.add(orca.keybindings.KeyBinding(
    "w",
    1 << orca.settings.MODIFIER_ORCA,
    1 << orca.settings.MODIFIER_ORCA,
    sayWeatherHandler))

orca.settings.keyBindingsMap["default"] = myKeyBindings

Will

On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 13:16 +0200, Mario Lang wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> When I use the GNOME Weather applet with Orca, I have to invoke
> Ctrl+d (Details) on the panel icon to actually be able
> to read the weather report.
> 
> Is it possible to enhance the GNOME Weather applet such that
> it directly displays the temperature, just like the Clock
> applet directly displays the time?
>