Comments on: Updated Weather gDesklets

By: itsjustarumour

itsjustarumour — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:41:38 +0000

I’ve been enjoying having the Sidecandy Weather gDesklets work properly for over a year now thanks to your re-write of the sensor. So, first - thanks!! However, Yahoo have recently changed the way their sensor works again so none of these gDesklets work anymore. I have managed to get the old Goodweather gDesklet working again, by replacing the relevant lines in the __init__.py as follows:

class GoodWeatherSensor(Sensor):

WEATHER_SOURCE = “http://xoap.weather.com/weather/local/” \
“%(weather_code)s?cc=*=5=xoap=xoap&” \
“par=1003832479=bb12936706a2d601″

However, I still haven’t been able to get your re-writes of the ClearWeather ones to work. Any ideas, or can you help?

Besy Regards,

itsjustarumour

By: Marc

Marc — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 08:28:14 +0000

I’m playing with Ubuntu and wanted to add eye-candy. The only thing I REALLY want is weather. The existing gdesklets don’t work, and a quick Google picked your desklet up.

I’m new to desklets, so I’m playing it be ear. It doesn’t work for me, so I’m peering at the code. Unfortunately, I can’t get the error-log to work, so I don’t really have anything to go on until I learn enough about python to get some kind of output period.

Anyway, I just wanted to say thank you. I have more fun stuff to pick through. I am looking forward to a shiney desktop weather applet. Once I get it playing on this desktop, then I’ve got Slax and PCLinuxOS and a couple of other distros that I want go get it up and running on. This is cool.

Oh, error on _this_ machine it same for all applets (existing wx applets or yours):
“unknown” or “Retrieval Failed”. For all I know, it’s because Ubuntu runs it under seperate credentials or something else I have to learn enough about to guess on.

By: Francisco

Francisco — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:34:48 +0000

Fantastic desklet! Finally one that works =)

Thanks.

By: Ram

Ram — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:11:21 +0000

I tried your gdesklet but showed error. I am posting the error below.

list index out of range
/usr/lib/gdesklets/utils/ErrorFormatter.py
37 hasattr(exc_value, “lineno”)):
38 filename = exc_value.filename
39 lineno = exc_value.lineno
40 else:
41 tbs = traceback.extract_tb(exc_tb)
> 42 filename = tbs[-1][0]
43 lineno = tbs[-1][1]
44 del tbs
45
46 # print error message
47 out = “\n”
48 out += “[EXC]%s\n” % str(exc_value)

By: FooLsKi

FooLsKi — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:32:14 +0000

Thank you! Finally a working weather desklet

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:11:49 +0000

I have installed the gdesklets, and also the weather-gauge. I like the looks of it. I am having a problem though:
1) I have set up the “use Weather Page URL” because it doesn’t seem to find “Birmingham Alabama” 2) It (the weather gauge) comes up with “Unknown” (in every field)

I think it is a proxy problem… Do you have any solutions? or can you point me in the right direction to get this taken care of? I really like what I see!

Thanks Dan

By: Nilayan

Nilayan — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:54:26 +0000

@neuman — I just tried installing on Fedora 7 and ran into the same problem. Copying the ‘Sensors’ directory from ‘20070420-weather-gauge-gdesklets.tar.gz’ into the ‘$HOME/.gdesklets’ directory fixed it.

– Nilayan

By: neuman

neuman — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:48:49 +0000

When I load your weather-guage desklet, it tells me that I don’t have the WeatherYahoo sensor. Where do I get the sensor, and why its it automatically packaged with the guage?

By: Adler

Adler — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 05:35:55 +0000

Hi,

So, I’ve downloaded the package w/ GDesklets running. I use the OSX clock on my Desktop. How should I add your package to the mix?

Thanks in advance for your reply.

Adler
Phoenix, Arizona