ANNOUNCE: xfce4-weather-plugin 0.8.3 released

Harald Judt h.judt at gmx.at
Mon Feb 18 21:47:29 CET 2013


Am 18.02.2013 21:19, schrieb Robby Workman:
> On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 20:49:18 +0100
> Harald Judt <h.judt at gmx.at> wrote:
>
>>    - the Location tab lets you tweak latitude, longitude, altitude and
>>      timezone (autodetection powered by GeoNames)
>
>
> Forcing this to be set at compile-time is not ideal at all - how
> about have this GEONAMES_USERNAME pulled from a config file and/or
> an environment variable and/or some other method that lets the
> average user change it on-the-fly?  Telling users to recompile the
> plugin to merely change a username seems a bit much...
>
> -RW

This notice is for distributors and package maintainers. The typical 
user usually shouldn't care about this at all. Do you expect all users 
of the plugin to register for GeoNames? Anyway, a fallback option is 
available; Please read the README, section 'hidden options'.

Harald

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