Furius Weather
I decided to release an independent version of my Furius Weather superkaramba widget which was originally released as part of the Furius Karamba Suite.
This is my attempt at a suitable attractive alternative to the excellent Liquid Weather widget, which, for all its many positives, I believe takes up too much desktop real estate.
I have kept this widget as simple as possible to promote community customization. The icon scheme is compatable with those of Liquid Weather and the background image can be easily replaced with one of the users own choosing (just get the size right!). A version is also available which does not contain a background image (Furius Weather Mini), for the minimalists amongst you! Placing your mouse over the image displays the full forecast.
Installation:
This theme requires python-elementtree. This should be available from your distributions repositories.
The download archive comes with two versions, FuriusWeather24 and FuriusWeather25; these correspond to your version of python, for example, if you are running python 2.4 you need to run the theme from FuriusWeather24, if you are running python 2.5 you need to run the theme from FuriusWeather25.
Setting Your Location:
You need to open the FuriusWeather.py file in your favourite text editor.
You will see the following section near the top of the file:
#***********CHANGE THESE VALUES AS REQUIRED********************
units = ‘f’
#units = ‘c’
locationCode = ‘UKXX0318′ # London
browser = “kfmclient openProfile webbrowsing ”
#browser = “/opt/swiftfox/swiftfox ”
#browser = “firefox ”
#browser = “opera ”
#*****************DO NOT CHANGE BELOW ME!***********************
Comment/uncomment to select your desired measurement unit and web browser.
Change the location code to match your desired city.
To find your location code:
1. Visit http://weather.yahoo.com/
2. Enter you city in the search box and click ‘Go’
3. You will be sent the the weather page for your desired city.
4. The URL of this page will look like this (I have chosen Berlin) - http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/GMXX0007.html
5. Your locationCode is the value between ‘http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/’ and ‘.html’, (GMXX0007)
To Change Icon Set:
1. Visit http://liquidweather.net/icons.php
2. Download an icon Set
3. Replace the large_icons with the contents of the large_icons folder from your downloaded icon set.
4. Reload theme.
License: GPL
Download
FuriusWeather.tar.gz 14-Jan-2008 14:41 1.4M FuriusWeatherMini.ta..> 12-Apr-2008 02:39 1.4M
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Hey, that’s a cool widget. I really like it. Thanks dude!
Very good theme. Bardzo fajny motyw.
Excellent widget!!!
However last few days I’ve detected a problem. The weather icon doesn’t change between day and night. but it does “between weathers” to say so.
So… I suppose the sun is out in the middle of the night!
Anyway, any solutions to this minimal inconvenience…
Great!! Thanks
Marcus,
I had tried using Gnome for a while instead of KDE, just to catch up with it. For the most part, I enjoyed it, but I’m happily back using KDE. However, my one-month venture into Gnome created a dependency on having the weather on my desktop (in Gnome, it was in a widget).
I searched for a solution and kept seeing “SuperKarumba” as the answer. I fired it up, found your plugin first and I just had to write and let you know how much I dig it! It looks slick and provides exactly what I was needing.
Thanks for sharing such a great project!
Hi, just installed and its not working so well for me, the widget appears on screen and freezes superkaramba and all other widgets. I’m guessing it has something to do the with works proxy server. Do you feel like adding porxy support to your code?
Any chance of getting this as a screenlet?
Phil, Have you checked out the clear weather screenlet? Clear weather is very similar.
With your widget below Cairo Clock and above Knotes I’m beginning to think I’ll never miss Vista (much - lol). If you could just make Half-Life work… It’s very slick; very aesthetically pleasing; thank you very much!
Thanks for comment, John. RE: Half-Life, take a look at this:
http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/wiwimod/index.php?page=HOWTO+Steam&back=HOWTO+INDEX+Wine+Games
I’ve had HL and CS working on Linux.
Just wondering whether it is possible to show a five-day forecast, rather than just the present day. Great if this would be possible.
Mike
Thanks for the Half-Life link; didn’t know it existed. By the way… Have you seen the sticky windows in Ubuntu 8.04; they may be the greatest gizmo, thingamagig, gadget, etc. that I’ve ever seen. Admittedly, I don’t know whether or not they existed in other versions but what a “sense of humor” for an operating system.
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Great one, thanks.
will it still work without xml.sax? and where was that mentioned as a requirement?
Nice! Very Nice!
Thank you!
Very nice! Thanx.
However is it a possibility to get 5 day forecasts like in liquid weather?
I need forecasts, but unfortunatelly lw+ won’t work in my machines ;/
Lus, unfortunately FuriusWeather uses a Yahoo Weather RSS feed to retrieve weather information and this feed is only a 24 hour forecast. Sorry. 8(
I have python-elementtree 2.6….the 2.5 version is not working for me. Is there another version I can use?
I’m afraid that if neither of the versions work, there is nothing that I can do at the moment. It would seem that Python have changed some of the libraries around (again) for Python 2.6.