Bug 501641

Summary:	Feature request: Manually refresh weather
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	dringsim
Component:	Weather widget	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	isma.af, kdedev, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	6.3.3
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description dringsim 2025-03-17 14:25:57 UTC

SUMMARY

Users should be able to refresh weather whenever they want, especially when weather forecast fails to load.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS

Operating System: Arch Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.12.0
Qt Version: 6.8.2

Comment 1 TraceyC 2025-03-17 16:00:32 UTC

This seems reasonable. It doesn't seem difficult to add a menu item that invokes the refresh code.

Comment 2 Nate Graham 2025-03-17 16:40:45 UTC

> especially when weather forecast fails to load.
This is the key part. Why is it failing to load? Ideally it never would. Let's dig into that before we add manual workarounds that would clutter the UI and allow people to DDOS the weather providers and provoke them to cut off our access.

I suspect you're hitting Bug 409393, which is known and should eventually get fixed.