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martykan / forecastie

A simple, opensource weather app for Android.
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Open robinpaulson opened 4 years ago

robinpaulson commented 4 years ago

See attached

robinpaulson commented 4 years ago

The phrase "Heavy intensity shower rain" is odd, it appears longer than necessary.

Looking through the API docs, it appears to be a hardcoded (by OWM) string, which is part of the "Current" conditions. I suppose we could replace it with our own string, but that sounds fiddly, irritating and wrong.

robinpaulson commented 4 years ago

"Heavy showers" sounds totally fine to me, less of a mouthful too.

FridoDeluxe commented 4 years ago

Int this case I'd rather fix the layout to handle potentail long weather descriptions than replacing this by another string. Going through all languages and finding appropriate shorter phrases doesn't sound like a good solution. There might always be a situation (small display size, wide system font ...) where the phrase gets too long and the layout needs to handles that.

Apart from that, if several of OWM's weather descriptions are odd we could think of a general mechanism to replace them by more suitable phrases to enhance the user experience.

robinpaulson commented 4 years ago

Going through all languages and finding appropriate shorter phrases doesn't sound like a good solution.

Yes, why would i think english is the only language with phrases which might overlap here?

In this case I'd rather fix the layout to handle potential long weather descriptions

Yup

FridoDeluxe commented 4 years ago

Apart from that, if several of OWM's weather descriptions are odd we could think of a general mechanism to replace them by more suitable phrases to enhance the user experience.

Some time ago I reported a wrong weather translation to the OWM support and suggested a better one, it got changed quite fast. In case weather descriptions are misleading or somehow cumbersome, there might be a chance to fix this directly at the source.

robinpaulson commented 4 years ago

@FridoDeluxe that sounds like a whole other issue, parallel to this

robinpaulson commented 3 years ago

Hmm, that last post of mine looks very dismissive in retrospect. I'm sorry about that @FridoDeluxe , my bad. I'll be more careful in future.

FridoDeluxe commented 3 years ago

Hmm, that last post of mine looks very dismissive in retrospect. I'm sorry about that @FridoDeluxe , my bad. I'll be more careful in future.

Nothing to worry, doesn't sound dismissive to me. Everything's fine!