Open lukefromdc opened 6 years ago
I think weather.com doesn't provide a default link any more which can be used by mate-weather-applet. Also finding a link from another side which you can add as custum link is very hard. In the past i found a working link to a german weather site but i forgot where it was. Btw. i forgot which format is needed in the http link.
If the radar map no longer has a usable remote source, should we remove it from the applet? This was why we had to drop the "invest" applet after the remote source for its information was discontinued.
I haven't look in code to see what is expected but i agree to drop code which doesn't have a source.
But the UI provides a way for entering a custom map url, which I actually use. We should probably update the URL to use something like weather underground (that's what I use for my custom radar link) and it works very well
OK, that is enough that we should not delete the code, but either use that URL or prompt for a user selected one
Weather underground provides radar maps only for usa, canada or australia. Beside from that which format use your link, gif? I found a local weather site from berlin university which provides working links ended with .gif. http://wind.met.fu-berlin.de/loops/radar_200/R.NEW.gif So the first question is what link format expect our code?
I found a site which provides free animated gif images. Sadly only for europe, africa, asia and oceania -_- https://en.sat24.com/en/freeimages
@raveit65, yes wunderground links are dynamically generated animated gifs
Maybe we could have different providers for the user to choose from? Or automatically using one or another based on the region?
Expected behaviour
On selecting the Radar Map tab in the "details" dialog the radar map should be displayed
Actual behaviour
Radar map tab is empty, theme background color displayed across entire tab, nothing else in it but the "visit weather.com" button, which works.
Steps to reproduce the behaviour
Add the weather applet to mate-panel, open the "preferences" dialog and enable radar maps, then click on the applet to invoke the "details" forecast dialog, from there select the "radar map" tab.
MATE general version
1.21 from git master
Package version
Locally compiled
Linux Distribution
Debian Unstable updated 7-9-2018
Link to downstream report of your Distribution
None as these are locally compiled packages