Gnome weather applet non-functional in hoary

Jonathan Hudson jh+ubuntu at daria.co.uk
Tue May 3 19:44:28 UTC 2005


Norman Silverstone wrote:
> 
> 
> No, only the present conditions in Wales, forecast not available.
> 

This is because the gweather Locations.xml file is fundamentally
broken for the UK, in particular, the <zone> entries refer to names
that the UK met office stopped using about 2 years ago.

e.g. The distributed file for Southampton has

 <zone>:RIPMS</zone>

whereas, it should be

<zone>:centralsouthern</zone>

Quite easy to fix by visits to the Met Office web site and a study of
/usr/share/gnome-applets/gweather/Locations.xml


-jonathan





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