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Paul Hartman posted on Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:04:22 -0500 as excerpted: |
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>> Oh and I miss the weather applet, and the kworldclock background image |
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>> and… and… and… |
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> I miss the old weather applet, too. The weather forecast and LCD weather |
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> station don't show the same kind of info when docked into the panel. |
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The default weather stuff in kde4 stinks, IMO. However, kde-look has |
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quite a number of weather plasmoids available, some of which look great |
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and provide a whole lot more info than kde3's setup did. |
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The one I'm using is "yaWP" (yet another Weather Plasmoid, IIRC). Try |
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looking it up. |
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FWIW, it's a bit much for me, but I've seen one guy mention that he now |
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has a whole weather /activity/, with a whole bunch of different plasmoids |
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all setup. (With 4.3 you can assign activities to a specific desktop, or |
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there's also the activity switcher plasmoid that can go in a panel or on |
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each activity, thus avoiding the whole zoom-out, zoom-in thing, once it's |
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setup at least.) |
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That too added to my switch-from-kde3 time, but I'd not have mentioned it |
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had it not come up here, because for me, it's just the routine stuff one |
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has to adjust going from one major version to another. But yes, the good |
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news is that there's all sorts of weather solutions now, some of which |
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work very well, you just have to shop around kde-look for them. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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