Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Kweather panel applet: unable to set station

[Anthony E. Caudel]

darren kirby wrote:
> I have just moved and one thing I needed to do was update the weather station
> for my panel applet. In the config dialogue I have two tabs: "Display"
> and "Weather Service".  I am able to select my new city in the "Available
> stations" and even check the weather using "Update All", however, I can not
> set this new station to be the one displayed on the panel.
>
> Even when I delete my old town from the "Weather Service" tab it remains in
> the "Location" dropdown in the Display tab. After hitting "Defaults" a few
> times, now I get only "Unknown Station" in the drop-down. There seems to be
> no way to set the station to be displayed on the panel...
>
> The help docs don't seem to correspond to the actual software:
>
> "If you don't know the ICAO code for the airport nearest to you, you can click
> on the link labeled Lookup Your ICAO Code to use a web based search engine to
> find it."
>
> I don't have such a link on mine, and there is no way (that I can find) to
> edit the value in the "Location" drop down.
>
> Again from the docs:
>
> "right mouse button click on an empty space in the panel and choose
> Add->Applet->KWeather
> A configuration dialog will open up. Initially the only configuration required
> to make KWeather work is the ICAO location code:."
>
> When I do this no configuration starts up. I can use the menu to select
> configuration, but this just leads to the same dialogue that I cannot do
> anything from...
>
> Does anyone know what's up with this?
> KDE is 3.5.5...
>
> -d

Apparently a bug.  Edit ~/.kde/share/config/weather_panelappletrc (after
 closing the applet) and set report_location= to your new city.

Tony

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