Comments on: Plasma – A nice weather “plasmoid” in 4 easy steps

By: How do you use activites? « Who Says Penguins Can't Fly?

How do you use activites? « Who Says Penguins Can't Fly? — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:42:43 +0000

[...] Scripted Image + yr.no – Hourly forecast from yr.no [...]

By: Hans

Hans — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:38:58 +0000

@Greg:
Thanks. It looks like your image somehow got selected (also has happened to me once). Is it still blue after a plasma restart? (kquitapp plasma; plasma). You could also try to remove the widget and add it again.

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:29:28 +0000

sorry, here’s the screenshot: http://yfrog.com/63denicscreenshot10p

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:28:49 +0000

Hi!
Great tutorial! I am very interested in weather forecast and this kind of plasmoid iss very useful to me. However, this image looks “blue”… I use Blend as plasma theme. A switch to ait plasma theme didn’t solve this problem. What can I do then? I’d like to have it with white background.
Thanks!
Greg

By: Anders

Anders — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 12:51:58 +0000

Cool concept!

Here, the scripted image plasmoid does not work, trying the update function in its context menu gives this in the error output:
JS CONSOLE MESSAGE: line 1 : “ReferenceError: Can’t find variable: init”
plasma(31265)/libplasma Plasma::WebView::keyPressEvent: QKeyEvent(KeyPress, 1000021, 4000000, “”"”, false, 1)

By: Hans

Hans — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:53:18 +0000

@Thomas:
“But I still wonder why the Norwegians have such fantastic weatherinformation.”

Yes it’s pretty strange, since the weather in Norway is easy to predict: rain. (Sorry; being a Swede, I couldn’t resist. )

I read in a news article about yr.no that they decided to release everything for free (as in gratis) – way to go! Other sites that use yr.no as provider doesn’t have to pay anything.
The Swedish counterpart (SMHI) uses Flash to present the forecast (blergh). Fortunately there’s a SMHI plasmoid.

@ tanghus:
Nice screenshot!

By: tanghus

tanghus — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:53:21 +0000

@Thomas: Yes, that site is really great. Being Danish, I usually use http://dmi.dk but it’s not nearly as good as the Norwegian site.
Made a weather Activity:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/h-Zl7UoUXAENUazj1Zf0jA?feat=directlink

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:56:37 +0000

Thanks for the tip and your answer on identi.ca. It works very well for me.
But I still wonder why the Norwegians have such fantastic weatherinformation.

The person who asked on identi.ca

By: tanghus

tanghus — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:09:20 +0000

@Luca & @Hans: Thanks. I’ll check the forums again. I’ve looked at them before, but they seem a bit disorganized to me. On the other hand, so are the mailing lists

By: Hans

Hans — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:37:04 +0000

@tanghus:
“We could actually use a mailing list dedicated to Plasma – for users also, meaning no svn/git commits and not too technical. And I still haven’t figured out where to report bugs/wishes for Plasma specific things…”

As Luca Beltrame suggested, check out the KDE Community Forums. There is a subforum dedicated to Plasma, and you can also find some Plasma tutorials in Tutorials & Tips.

Bugs should be reported to https://bugs.kde.org/ (except for third-party plasmoids, in which case the report should be sent the maintainer).

@KenP:
For me it loads in a couple of seconds (KDE 4.2.4).