[Xfce4-commits] <xfce4-weather-plugin:master> Update NEWS and TODO.

Mon Jan 14 18:08:13 CET 2013

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commit 79d3db344879895b00dcdcd1fd2a36f9a13e8f66
Author: Harald Judt <h.judt at gmx.at>
Date:   Sun Jan 13 17:15:46 2013 +0100

    Update NEWS and TODO.

 NEWS |  115 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 TODO |   60 +++++++++++++---------------------
 2 files changed, 138 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 8b8655a..0063a26 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,118 @@
+0.8.3
+=====
+
+- Replace the old buggy weather-http implementation with libsoup.
+  This solves compilation errors on some systems like Solaris and
+  makes the plugin compatible with HTTP-1.1 chunked transfer
+  encoding. Proxy settings are now handled via environment variables
+  if set, which is how most other applications do it. Apart from that,
+  communication is now asynchronous and doesn't block the UI (bug
+  #9636).
+- Fix a rather severe bug in 0.8.2 which caused sending a HTTP request
+  to the forecast service every 15 seconds in case of a download
+  error.
+- Analyze HTTP status codes and implement API deprecation warning.
+  Status codes and deprecation warning are visible as warnings in the
+  panel output.
+- Weather data downloads are performed every 20 minutes, astronomical
+  data updates only once a day. In case of failure, there will be
+  retries in shorter intervals for some time, then the plugin will
+  return to the standard interval.
+- Rewrite the update code. Update events are now processed in time, or
+  in certain unforeseen cases like suspend/resume within an interval
+  of maximum 10 seconds.
+- Implement caching of data. Astronomical for the current day and
+  weather data will be cached and read on startup and when location
+  data is changed. Besides reducing network traffic and a seemingly
+  faster startup, this means the plugin can operate without internet
+  connection for a while. More information about caching is available
+  in the README file.
+- Improve calculation of daytime forecasts and current conditions.
+- Caching of data also improves calculation of current conditions.
+  Data for current conditions is now interpolated and calculated for 5
+  minute intervals. If data for the beginning of the current interval
+  is not available, the plugin reverts to the old, non-interpolating
+  behaviour of being slightly to largely imprecise about the current
+  weather, to a degree depending on the time interval for your
+  location. In short, only data for the end of the current interval
+  will be shown as earlier data is not provided by the forecast
+  service.
+- Add a proper "About" dialog (bug #9379).
+- Remove info button from summary window.
+- Remove forecast entry from plugin context menu (bug #9319).
+- Remember last selected tab in config and summary windows. However,
+  the setting is not saved to the config file.
+- Reformat detailed weather report in summary window.
+- Fix cursor not changing correctly in details tab.
+- Fix met.no icon transparency issue with some themes in details tab.
+- Show tooltips for forecast cells in summary window.
+- Show information about previous and scheduled downloads in the
+  details tab.
+- Update comments for the weather symbol descriptions.
+- New value: Apparent temperature (bug #9564).
+- New value: Dew point.
+- Rename value: Atmospheric pressure is barometric pressure.
+- Rename value: Humidity is relative humidity.
+- Rename value: Medium clouds is middle clouds.
+- Guess amount of snow precipitation from rain.
+- Use more digits for precipitations in inches.
+- The new config dialog applies options immediately and contains
+  explanatory tooltips for nearly every item.
+- New options to set latitude and longitude manually.
+- New option to set the altitude (in meters or feet, depending on
+  the chosen unit on the units page). The met.no elevation model
+  is not very good outside Norway.
+- Altitude is auto-detected using the GeoNames web service, which
+  isn't perfect but better than the met.no elevation model outside
+  Norway and free. GeoNames data can improve over time by receiving
+  voluntary contributions.
+- Rework unit system support. The simple but lacking METRIC/IMPERIAL
+  units option has been replaced with single options for every unit
+  so that the user can create a customized unit system, with more
+  units available than before. It still tries to set up the right
+  "set" at location auto-detection, based on the country code.
+- Use g_timeout_add_seconds for scrollbox updates where applicable
+  instead of g_timeout_add. This has the potential to save CPU time.
+- Add scrollbox toggle option. Saves CPU time significantly.
+- Disabling scrollbox animation reduces CPU time sigificantly.
+- Improve handling of scrollbox updates. Updates don't disturb or
+  restart animations in many cases and seem to happen more seamlessly,
+  except when desired, e.g. on user-provoked data resets.
+- New option to set font size manually and removed code that did it
+  automatically (bug #9369).
+  Font settings can be undone by middle-clicking on the button.
+- Implement scrollbox text color support (bug #7488).
+  Text color can be undone by middle-clicking on the button.
+- Implement scrollbox multi-line support (bug #5722).
+- Option to round values in scrollbox, tooltip and forecast tab, which
+  makes the widgets look a bit cleaner. In the details tab, always the
+  exact values will be shown (bug #9509 and bug #9318).
+- The user may now choose from two different forecast layouts: "Days
+  in columns", a calendar-like variant similar to the one in pre-0.8
+  versions, and "Days in rows" which was used beginning with
+  0.8.0. The latter is still the default.
+- Implement tooltip styles: In addition to the default tooltip that
+  some people might find a bit verbose, a simple tooltip style is now
+  available, showing only some interesting values. This is a bit
+  experimental, and either the current solution will be enhanced,
+  probably by providing more styles, or dropped completely to keep
+  things simple.
+- This version introduces icon theme support! The user can add folders
+  with icon sets to ~/.config/xfce4/weather/icons and select them on
+  the appearance tab on the configuration dialog. Icon themes will also
+  be searched in the THEMEDIR specified at compile time. Please read
+  the docs for more information if you're interested in creating icon
+  themes (bug #6464).
+- Improve liquid icons: Crop the borders and resize the icons while
+  applying sharpness filters etc. This makes them look bigger and
+  easier discernable.
+- New icon theme: "Liquid Dark", a variation of the liquid icon theme
+  better suited for dark panels.
+- Use GArrays for storing timeslices and glib data structures in many
+  other places to improve portability and maintenance.
+- Rewrite and refactor most code, fixing and protecting against
+  possible crashes.
+
 0.8.2
 =====
 - Lots of translations updates.
diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index b2e0329..24c9b34 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -1,60 +1,46 @@
 Here is a collection of ideas and tasks for future releases, listed in
 categories, but not prioritized or mandatory.
 
-Panel widgets
+Maintenance and optimizing stuff
 ======================================================================
-* Optionally hide scrollbox
-* Use multiple lines in scrollbox (bug #5722)
-* Allow choosing a custom text color for the scrollbox widget to
-  prevent unreadable or hardly readable text with some themes
-  (bug #7488)
-* Use the Xfce hvbox (maybe, need to check)
-* Properly support custom icon themes (bug #6464)
+* Use upower for power saving mode (e.g. stop scrollbox animations).
+* Use the Xfce hvbox (maybe, need to check).
 
 Data
 ======================================================================
-* Use HTTP status codes to warn in time about API changes
-* How about a "follow-me" mode: Auto-determine location
-  based on IP address and adapt to any changes?
-* The plugin uses the local time, which results in wrong forecasts
-  when the user chooses a location in a different timezone. It should
-  be possible to find the timezone of the chosen location and do some
-  math to correct this.
-* Optionally send msl (meters above sea level) parameter when fetching
-  weather data, because sometimes a wrong altitude is returned.
-  Maybe this can be determined correctly by openstreetmap, but I did
-  not see anything like it in the XML.
+* Use HTTP status codes to warn in time about API changes.
+  -> already reported in panel output, maybe in details tab too?
+* Use XML "next run" to schedule data downloads.
+* Rewrite all time-related stuff to be in GMT. Then recalculate the
+  times for the destination timezone. glib provides tools for this,
+  but only beginning with 2.26. Code for determining the timezone of
+  a location is already implemented but temporarily deactivated.
 * Use openweathermap.org for live/historical data when it is a bit
   more developed. Maybe check it again in a year or so, or wait until
   other (open) providers pop up. For the time being, met.no should be
   good enough. Other providers are only slightly better, like
   weather.com returning values that have been reported half an hour
   up to an hour in the past, depending on the location.
-* Optimize data download update intervals. Current update interval is
-  3 hours, but in fact data change more often. Updating data currently
-  deletes point data at the beginning of the nearest available
-  interval (because it is not provided by the XML document), so only
-  temperature at the end of the interval could be shown with a higher
-  update frequency. Caching/special treatment could solve this
-  problem.
+* Implement METAR support. Perhaps.
+* Download and cache astronomical data for several days. Easy to do,
+  since the met.no sunrise API supports ranges.
+* Find out how to calculate symbols by ourselves.
 
-Forecast tab
+Icon themes
 ======================================================================
-* Show more details for daytime forecasts
-  - maybe tooltips for each entry?
-  - find a good way to indicate amount of precipitation
+* Support icons for polar days, as met.no does.
 
-Details tab
+Configuration dialog
 ======================================================================
+* Add option for configuring the scrollbox delays.
 
+Forecast tab
+======================================================================
+* Show day min/max values.
 
-Configuration dialog
+Details tab
 ======================================================================
-* Reorganize options, the window's already too large for the small
-  screen size of netbooks
-* Apply options immediately, like in most Xfce apps
-* Allow editing latitude and longitude and meters above sea level
 
 New stuff
 ======================================================================
-* Graph tab showing hourly break-down of forecast data
+* Graph tab showing hourly break-down of forecast data.
