rpm for xfce4-weather-plugin-0.2.0

[Bob Snyder]

Just downloaded the source and built the updated Weather Update plugin 
(Ver 0.3.0). A very nice upgrade too as described by David A. De Graaf 
below. In addition there is now now a help screen that describes how to 
obtain the location code that you can get from a button on the 
properties dialog .

No problems with lockups. (I'm also running a 32 bit Athalon...)

The homepage says that it is now hosted on xfce-goodies.berlios.de but I 
couldn't find it there. The home page is at 
http://www.atreidis.nl.eu.org/weatherplugin/

Thanks to author Bob Schlärmann for the upgrade.

Bob S.

David A. De Graaf wrote:

>On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 11:47:21PM -0500, Joe Klemmer wrote:
>  
>
>>	I just built and made available (ftp://ftp.webtrek.com/pub/rpms)  
>>the xfce4-weather-plugin rpm built on Fedora with the checkinstall
>>utility.  I have to say this this is now my favorite panel plug-in.  Very
>>cool.
>>    
>>
>
>
>Very cool, indeed.
>
>I installed Joe Klemmer's xfce4-weather-plugin-0.2.0-1.fc1.i386.rpm
>on a Fedora Core 1 Athlon 32 bit system.  No one had bothered to mention
>how a plugin is actually used.  It took some dumb luck to discover that
>after restarting xfce4, one right-clicks on the row of dots at the end
>of the panel, clicks on "Add new item".  Then "Weather update" appears.
>Having discovered that little secret, the rest was easy.
>
>I note that others, even Olivier himself, has complained that this
>plugin crashes the panel.  Not for me!  It works fine.
>
>So well, that I wanted to install it on a shiny new Athlon 64 bit
>machine, running Fedora Core 1, x86_64.  But no prebuilt rpm was found,
>so I fetched the latest source code - xfce4-weather-plugin-0.3.0.tar.gz,
>built and installed it.
>
>This runs beautifully and includes some nice enhancements.
>Right clicking on the weather icon, choosing Properties, raises a
>larger "Change Item" box.  In addition to the Position, Measurement
>Unit, and Location code items there's a weather parameter window to
>choose among various data:  Temp, press, windspeed, etc.
>More than one can be added to a list.  After closing, these data are
>displayed in the panel, successively.
>
>Moreover, a left click on the panel pops up a larger display of all
>the weather data for the location code.  With the -0.3.0 version,
>there are two tabs:  Summary and Forecast.  With the -0.2.0-1 version
>there's only the Summary.
>
>OK, newer is better.  I'll build the source code on the 32 bit Athlon
>machine.  But (you knew this was coming, right?) it crashes the
>panel.  Every time!  Consistently.  Merely clicking on "Add new item |
>Weather update" makes the panel disappear.
>
>Why would the same source code, xfce4-weather-plugin-0.3.0.tar.gz,
>run fine on a 64 bit machine but crash the panel on a 32 bit machine?
>
>I hope this info may give someone with knowledge of the details a
>clue.  For completeness, here's what's installed on the two systems.
>There are slight differences.  RPMs, except for a few tar.gz's.
>
>    32 bit			   	   64 bit
>    
>gtk-xfce-engine-2.1.8-1		  |	gtk-xfce-engine-2.1.8-2
>libxfce4mcs-4.0.3-1			libxfce4mcs-4.0.3-1
>libxfce4mcs-devel-4.0.3-1		libxfce4mcs-devel-4.0.3-1
>libxfce4util-4.0.3-1			libxfce4util-4.0.3-1
>libxfce4util-devel-4.0.3-1		libxfce4util-devel-4.0.3-1
>libxfcegui4-4.0.3-1			libxfcegui4-4.0.3-1
>libxfcegui4-devel-4.0.3-1		libxfcegui4-devel-4.0.3-1
>xfce-mcs-manager-4.0.3-1		xfce-mcs-manager-4.0.3-1
>xfce-mcs-manager-devel-4.0.3-1		xfce-mcs-manager-devel-4.0.3-1
>xfce-mcs-plugins-4.0.3-1		xfce-mcs-plugins-4.0.3-1
>xfce-utils-4.0.3-1			xfce-utils-4.0.3-1
>xfce4-iconbox-4.0.3-1			xfce4-iconbox-4.0.3-1
>xfce4-mixer-4.0.3-1			xfce4-mixer-4.0.3-1
>xfce4-panel-4.0.3-1			xfce4-panel-4.0.3-1
>xfce4-session-0.1.1.tar.gz	  |	xfce4-session-0.1.4-1
>xfce4-systray-4.0.3-1			xfce4-systray-4.0.3-1
>xfce4-themes-4.0.3-1			xfce4-themes-4.0.3-1
>				  >	xfce4-toys-4.0.3-1
>xfce4-trigger-launcher-4.0.3-1		xfce4-trigger-launcher-4.0.3-1
>xfce4-wavelan-plugin-0.3.1-1	  <
>xfce4-weather-plugin-0.2.0-1	  |     xfce4-weather-plugin-0.3.0.tar.gz
>
>  
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