[gentoo-user] [OT] Kweather panel applet: unable to set station

[gentoo-user] [OT] Kweather panel applet: unable to set station

[darren kirby]

I have just moved and one thing I needed to do was update the weather station 
for my panel applet. In the config dialogue I have two tabs: "Display" 
and "Weather Service".  I am able to select my new city in the "Available 
stations" and even check the weather using "Update All", however, I can not 
set this new station to be the one displayed on the panel.

Even when I delete my old town from the "Weather Service" tab it remains in 
the "Location" dropdown in the Display tab. After hitting "Defaults" a few 
times, now I get only "Unknown Station" in the drop-down. There seems to be 
no way to set the station to be displayed on the panel...

The help docs don't seem to correspond to the actual software:

"If you don't know the ICAO code for the airport nearest to you, you can click 
on the link labeled Lookup Your ICAO Code to use a web based search engine to 
find it."

I don't have such a link on mine, and there is no way (that I can find) to 
edit the value in the "Location" drop down.

Again from the docs:

"right mouse button click on an empty space in the panel and choose 
Add->Applet->KWeather
A configuration dialog will open up. Initially the only configuration required 
to make KWeather work is the ICAO location code:."

When I do this no configuration starts up. I can use the menu to select 
configuration, but this just leads to the same dialogue that I cannot do 
anything from...

Does anyone know what's up with this?
KDE is 3.5.5...

-d
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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Kweather panel applet: unable to set station

[Anthony E. Caudel]

darren kirby wrote:
> I have just moved and one thing I needed to do was update the weather station 
> for my panel applet. In the config dialogue I have two tabs: "Display" 
> and "Weather Service".  I am able to select my new city in the "Available 
> stations" and even check the weather using "Update All", however, I can not 
> set this new station to be the one displayed on the panel.
> 
> Even when I delete my old town from the "Weather Service" tab it remains in 
> the "Location" dropdown in the Display tab. After hitting "Defaults" a few 
> times, now I get only "Unknown Station" in the drop-down. There seems to be 
> no way to set the station to be displayed on the panel...
> 
> The help docs don't seem to correspond to the actual software:
> 
> "If you don't know the ICAO code for the airport nearest to you, you can click 
> on the link labeled Lookup Your ICAO Code to use a web based search engine to 
> find it."
> 
> I don't have such a link on mine, and there is no way (that I can find) to 
> edit the value in the "Location" drop down.
> 
> Again from the docs:
> 
> "right mouse button click on an empty space in the panel and choose 
> Add->Applet->KWeather
> A configuration dialog will open up. Initially the only configuration required 
> to make KWeather work is the ICAO location code:."
> 
> When I do this no configuration starts up. I can use the menu to select 
> configuration, but this just leads to the same dialogue that I cannot do 
> anything from...
> 
> Does anyone know what's up with this?
> KDE is 3.5.5...
> 
> -d

Apparently a bug.  Edit ~/.kde/share/config/weather_panelappletrc (after
 closing the applet) and set report_location= to your new city.

Tony

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Kweather panel applet: unable to set station

[Peter Ruskin]

On Tuesday 31 October 2006 17:58, darren kirby wrote:
> I have just moved and one thing I needed to do was update the
> weather station for my panel applet. In the config dialogue I
> have two tabs: "Display" and "Weather Service".  I am able to
> select my new city in the "Available stations" and even check the
> weather using "Update All", however, I can not set this new
> station to be the one displayed on the panel.
>
> Even when I delete my old town from the "Weather Service" tab it
> remains in the "Location" dropdown in the Display tab. After
> hitting "Defaults" a few times, now I get only "Unknown Station"
> in the drop-down. There seems to be no way to set the station to
> be displayed on the panel...
>
> The help docs don't seem to correspond to the actual software:
>
> "If you don't know the ICAO code for the airport nearest to you,
> you can click on the link labeled Lookup Your ICAO Code to use a
> web based search engine to find it."
>
> I don't have such a link on mine, and there is no way (that I can
> find) to edit the value in the "Location" drop down.
>
> Again from the docs:
>
> "right mouse button click on an empty space in the panel and
> choose Add->Applet->KWeather
> A configuration dialog will open up. Initially the only
> configuration required to make KWeather work is the ICAO location
> code:."
>
> When I do this no configuration starts up. I can use the menu to
> select configuration, but this just leads to the same dialogue
> that I cannot do anything from...
>
> Does anyone know what's up with this?
> KDE is 3.5.5...
>
Yes, KWeather *is* a bit messy.  Not all the stations listed 
in /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/kweatherservice/stations.dat are 
available in the selector combo.  This makes selecting your station 
in the Kontact Summary view problematic.  However, for the KWeather 
panel applet you can manually edit (after shutting down the applet) 
the file ~/.kde3.5/share/config/weather_panelappletrc. Minr 
contains this:

 [General Options]
 dock_font=helvetica,8,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0
 log_file_name=
 logging=false
 offline_mode=true
 report_location=EGNR
 reportview_size=450,325
 smallview_mode=2
 timout_value=60

Select the correct code for report_location, restart the applet and 
you should be OK.

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Kweather panel applet: unable to set station

[darren kirby]

Thanks Peter and Anthony.

Editing the config file manually and adding the ICAO code has got it going...

Thanks again,
-d
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