Re: [G2R] Request for UI change to gweather applet for GNOME2

["Kevin Vandersloot" <kfv101 psu edu>]

Yah, you're right Seth. The problem right now is that gweather can't get
useful radar maps for the majority of cities. What I'm proposing is adding
to option of specifying a custom url. Otherwise gweather would try to get it
silently. The other solution is for someone to go through and update the
Locations list (lots of labor but easy to do) to make it really work
transparently.

Kevin

----- Original Message -----
From: "Seth Nickell" <snickell stanford edu>
To: <kfv101 psu edu>
Cc: "Release the hounds!" <gnome2-release-team gnome org>;
<gnome-doc-list gnome org>
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 9:00 AM
Subject: Re: [G2R] Request for UI change to gweather applet for GNOME2


> I really dislike interfaces where we just serve as a launcher for a
> particular URL. If you can't value add in any way, just let the user use
> bookmarks or whatever. If we can get the radar map transparently, that's
> cool, but we shouldn't be making them type URLs for the map, IMO.
>
> -seth
>
> On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 20:58, Kevin Vandersloot wrote:
> >
> > This is in reference to bug #53871
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53871
> >
> > So the radar map functionality of gweather basically doesn't work right
> > now. I propose to add a text entry to the prefs dialog allowing the user
to
> > specify the url to download. Is this okay?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Kevin