Bug 70527

Summary:	Allow alternative weather sources
Product:	[Applications] kweather-kde3	Reporter:	Josh Metzler <joshdeb>
Component:	general	Assignee:	geiseri
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	kde
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian testing
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Josh Metzler 2003-12-15 20:29:33 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.1.4)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages

It would be nice if I could select an alternate weather source for
KWeather (e.g. www.weather.com or www.weatherunderground.com).

Comment 1 Sok Ann Yap 2005-01-15 20:16:10 UTC

*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

Comment 2 richlv 2005-10-03 16:00:02 UTC

if this can be reliably done, it would be a big step forward. for example, weather.com has additional four cities in latvia that noaa does not have, it certainly has forecasts etc.

if they have city codes, there must be a way to overcome this in gui/configuration.

1. show a tree that is grouped by information source
+noaa
+www.weather.com
\|-country1
 |-country2

etc. this might be easier to implement, but would be bad from usability viewpoint. a better solution :

2. show country/city tree with available services as columns
country    noaa   weather.com   wunderground.com
+country1                             
+country2
\|city1     x          x               x
 |city2     -          o               o

in this case user can easily select several cities (depends on bug 106263 :) ) and/or services.

x represents checked checkbox, - represents empty checkbox and o represents an icon that notices that particular service does not have data for particular city.

if this functionality can be fully achieved, kweather would be something to really boast about :)

Comment 3 Stefan Böhmann 2010-04-17 15:58:37 UTC

kweather isn't maintained anymore. A replacement could be the weather plasmoid. 

If this bug is still valid for the weather plasmoid please open a bug against it (Product: plasma, Component: widget-weather).