Re: A weather app for GNOME

[Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>]

Hi Giovanni,

On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Giovanni Campagna
<scampa giovanni gmail com> wrote:
> Hello desktop-devel,
>
> 3.4 is almost out, so it's time to start thinking about 3.5, and how
> to make it even more wonderful.
> As a quick afternoon hack, I built a Weather app, following the
> designs at https://live.gnome.org/Design/Apps/Weather, and I think it
> would make a reasonably good Core App.
> You can find it at https://github.com/gcampax/gnome-weather. It
> depends on python 3 (tested 3.2), pygobject, gtk3 and clutter (>=
> 1.10), plus the newest version of libgweather. For best results, I
> recommend the branch at https://github.com/libgweather/yahoo-weather.
> It implements current conditions for the entire world, plus forecast
> for US and Milano Linate (XD). See
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672804 for details.
>
> Hope you like it, you're free to use.

Ah cool! Work on new apps is great!

I don't see much actual design work on the page [1] for that app...
did you speak to one of the other designers about this? If you didn't,
I'd suggest that you do. We want the new apps to have consistent
designs.

Allan

[1] http://live.gnome.org/Design/Apps/Weather/
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