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manifestinteractive / weather-bar-app

Weather Bar lives in your Menu Bar giving you access to beautiful real-time weather conditions and a generous 15-day forecast.
https://weatherbarapp.com
MIT License
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Win 11 22H2 Much Needed Updates #47

Closed jgarybrooks closed 1 year ago

jgarybrooks commented 2 years ago

Overview: This is a much needed tool in the business environment. Everyone out there is using weather as an employee productivity rabbit hole with the hope of monetization.

This app as is (1.0.0) loads, starts and runs on Windows 11 Enterprise Version 22H2 and provides simple access to the weather. It needs a couple of minor changes to be more effective.

Issues: Font Color/ Contrast: With the windows built in themes you cannot see the ICON or information on the tool bar. You have to click the ICON to see the weather which is just another distraction, To change the Toolbar Color to create readable contrast requires the MS Store (another rabbit hole) plus IT customization labor. Providing at least basic font / Icon

contrast options in "Preferences" would fix this.

"OpenWeatherMap" Link: Another rabbit hole... Publish the logo and the www.{DOMAIN} in copiable format so people can explore on their own. However clicking through on the app is just another rabbit hole. I spent an hour looking at the weather in England and the Continent and musing about why you were using a UK source (which works quite adequately).

Minor: Weather Window stays up when you click out of the pane. You can elect to have it behind "Real Work". However, this is abnormal windows behavior and causes one to focus back on the app to figure out how to close it. Just another distraction.

Minor: When first loaded Accessing "Preferences" by {Right-Clicking} the Icon the preferences page showed "Loading" forever. This cleared up after accessing "Preferences" from the Window.

Acceptance Criteria: Clean up the Font Contrast Issue and thoroughly test on Win 11. Minor items as required effort and time allow.

Steps to Duplicate ( required for bug reports ):

Install on Windows 11 22H2

Brier1104 commented 2 years ago

Is this widget still being supported?

manifestinteractive commented 1 year ago

This project works just fine for most folks. Even other Windows 11 users, you can see in other Windows 11 issues people state as such. I've got two Windows 11 devices I use right now and they also work fine on there.

This is open source software. If it's not working for you, maybe contribute a fix instead of suggesting a project be archived because you're specific issue on you're specific device is not resolved. It's not like I charge for this app ;)

The reality is that it works fine for most people without any changes needed for years now. That's not a reason to archive a project.

As I've stated, I am working on a Windows 11 fix in my spare time for the few that are impacted by it, but no, it's not a priority. I do have a full time job y'all ;)