Minimalistic 'Widescape' Weather for Screenlets

[vrunner]

http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/1875/screenshot1qt7.png

- Customizable Colors & Fonts
- Double Click widget to toggle between Compact/Expanded mode
- City/Time display can be hidden

Here are some configurations as an example:
http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/1295/screenshot2gx3.png

Download Screenlet (http://seagull.isi.edu/docs/WidescapeWeather.tar.gz)

Inspired by Widescape Weather for Konfabulator

[anshuman]

I got it running nicely,

How to add it in default ? So that I can start it with Control screenlet?
Should it move the entire screenlet directory to /usr/local/share/screenlet/ ??


Edit:-

I moved the entire directory to /usr/local/share/screenlet

and started

screenletsd start
screenletsd add Control.


Now i can see it in screenlet control too

But i dont think the themes are working as you intended... check the screenshots.


http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/636/screenletweathernz6.th.jpg (http://img20.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenletweathernz6.jpg)

[vrunner]

I'm glad you got it working.
There are no "themes" as such for this.

It's all configurable in Properties.

[Vasek]

Nice screenlet :)
It only doesn't deal with the Keep on top option properly on my computer, don't know why.

[vrunner]

Yes, it's been designed to stay at bottom :lol:
I'll change it if it bothers people.

[Vasek]

Yes, it's been designed to stay at bottom :lol:
I'll change it if it bothers people.
Is there any need to change the screenlets' default behaviour where "Keep below" is one of the options provided by the backend? If it doesn't work here, it's probably a bug in the main program and should be rather fixed there.

[vrunner]

Yes, it's been designed to stay at bottom :lol:
I'll change it if it bothers people.
Is there any need to change the screenlets' default behaviour where "Keep below" is one of the options provided by the backend? If it doesn't work here, it's probably a bug in the main program and should be rather fixed there.
No, no real reason really. Was a silly thing to do and I've removed it :)

But there is a bug that I encounter at times. When I set the background to transparent, quit Screenlets, and start them again, it doesn't recognize my clicks.

[Vasek]

But there is a bug that I encounter at times. When I set the background to transparent, quit Screenlets, and start them again, it doesn't recognize my clicks.
This is often caused in screenlets by only calling on_draw from on_draw_shape. Note that you draw a transparent input shape in this situation, which means all the transparent pixels are also transparent for clicks.
It's better to copy a piece of code from on_draw to on_draw_shape and assure the background is drawn with full opacity. This way you can also remove more complex drawing or data acquiring operations that would have no effect.

[vrunner]

Sweet ! Thanks Vasek !

Fixed. (Re-download from Link in the opening post)

[Vasek]

Sweet ! Thanks Vasek !
You're welcome :wink:

[anshuman]

Now , Does anyone know a Calendar screenlet if its already made?

Vasek, if its not there, Can you make one :)

Thanks for your good effort on this weather screenlet .

[Vasek]

Now , Does anyone know a Calendar screenlet if its already made?
Vasek, if its not there, Can you make one :)
Yes, there's one:
http://kfe.fjfi.cvut.cz/~potocek/storage/Calendar.tar.gz
There are even some open ideas to be implemented in it:
http://forum.go-compiz.org/viewtopic.php?p=4673&highlight=#4673
http://forum.go-compiz.org/viewtopic.php?p=4579&highlight=#4579
I have once promised I will try to do it, but I must have taken it back because a time-demanding duty crossed it... If you want to, you may try training your skills at it :)

When looking which "unofficial" screenlets are done, this may help you,
http://forum.go-compiz.org/viewtopic.php?p=4720&highlight=#4720
it's quite complete. You can put a screenlet's name to Google once you know its name.

Edit: Add Screenlet after the name, as in CalendarScreenlet. This was the naming convention until 0.0.7 and I think all the screenlets mentioned there come from that time.

Edit2: And these two!
http://forum.go-compiz.org/viewtopic.php?p=4053&highlight=#4053
http://forum.go-compiz.org/viewtopic.php?p=5311&highlight=#5311

Edit3: Sorry for bad link to Calendar... Fixed.

[RYX]

Hi vrunner! Cool screenlet - good work :) ... Concerning the transparent background Vasek is absolutely right. You could simply draw a rectangle (width width/height) in on_draw_shape if the background is set to be transparent, that way your screenlet isn't click-through but remains clickable at all.
Alternatively (I _think_) you could make sure that the shape is really redrawn when the background is set to transparent (by manually calling self.draw_shape() in __setattr__ after changing all needed vars) - that way the mask should contain the same output as the screenlet and work as expected.

@anshuman: The problem with the themes you noticed is indeed a bug. For now the themes are only loaded from the subdirectory of the screenlet's location - not from all screenlet-paths. That will change in the next version ...

:)

[madrano]

Download Screenlet (http://seagull.isi.edu/docs/WidescapeWeather.tar.gz)




link not working.:(

[noname2015]

link not working.:(

Foud it here : http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Desktop-Environment/Screenlets/Wide-weather-36886.shtml :D