Bug 475219 - Allow the Weather plasmoid to automatically change location to current location
Summary: Allow the Weather plasmoid to automatically change location to current location
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Weather widget (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 6.2.3
Platform: openSUSE Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2023-10-04 18:36 UTC by Roke Julian Lockhart Beedell
Modified: 2025-06-25 20:46 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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4wy78uwh: performance-


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Depiction of the problem. (60.15 KB, image/png)
2023-10-04 18:36 UTC, Roke Julian Lockhart Beedell
Details
Night light Screenshot (138.54 KB, image/png)
2025-06-21 16:40 UTC, Angad
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Description Roke Julian Lockhart Beedell 2023-10-04 18:36:16 UTC
Created attachment 162089 [details]
Depiction of the problem.

SUMMARY

The primary location should be possible to automatically update based upon the user's current location.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

1. Move the computer that the plasmoid is running on.

OBSERVED RESULT

It does not reflect the actual location of the device.

EXPECTED RESULT

The primary location should automatically reflect the actual location of the device.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS

Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20230929
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.8
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.110.0
Qt Version: 5.15.10
Kernel Version: 6.5.4-1-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 6-Core Processor
Memory: 30.5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 5700
Manufacturer: ASRock
Product Name: X670E Taichi

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

https://discuss.kde.org/t/does-the-weather-plasmoid-support-automatically-switching-to-current-location/5653/1?u=rokejulianlockhart
Comment 1 Roke Julian Lockhart Beedell 2023-10-04 18:37:44 UTC
lampih@gmail.com, you should make it more obvious in About where to report bugs to, like the other default Plasmoids do.
Comment 2 Angad 2025-06-21 16:40:00 UTC
In night light feature plasma can take longitude and latitude maybe that can be added here too, for getting the location automatically and show weather based on that.
Comment 3 Angad 2025-06-21 16:40:21 UTC
Created attachment 182495 [details]
Night light Screenshot
Comment 4 Roke Julian Lockhart Beedell 2025-06-21 16:56:24 UTC
(In reply to Angad from comment #3)

> In night light feature plasma can take longitude and latitude maybe that can be added here too, for getting the location automatically and show weather based on that.

Can you rephrase this? I don't know what you mean, after reading it a few times.  Even more so, I don't see what that screenshot demonstrates, except the current GUI of the Night Light KCM.
Comment 5 Angad 2025-06-21 17:04:49 UTC
(In reply to Roke Julian Lockhart Beedell from comment #4)

I was looking for a feature request where the weather forecast automatically shows weather based on the user's location, so I came up here due to the small summary of this post, ig this is maybe the same thing that I was looking for.

So I was thinking the night light feature can automatically get my location and set the day/night light automatically so what if something like that could be done here, and it takes my location and then shows the appropriate weather trends
Comment 6 Roke Julian Lockhart Beedell 2025-06-21 19:04:10 UTC
(In reply to Angad from comment #5)

To confirm, you're suggesting that the code which does this for the Night Light be re-used for the Weather Plasmoid? If so, I hadn't thought of that. It's clever.
Comment 7 Angad 2025-06-21 22:23:31 UTC
(In reply to Roke Julian Lockhart Beedell from comment #6)
> To confirm, you're suggesting that the code which does this for the Night
> Light be re-used for the Weather Plasmoid? If so, I hadn't thought of that.
> It's clever.

Yeah, pretty much this
Comment 8 Nate Graham 2025-06-25 20:46:33 UTC
With a new focus on location-based services in progress, this is a possibility for Plasma 6.5 or 6.6.