Last night I made a sprint before dinner, and the gettext support it’s almost ready!
Almost 100% translated to Spanish
I have to make a table to translate the numerical value of current conditions into a string so I can add it to PO files (currently I’m directly using the string provided by Yahoo! API, quick and dirty!).
So expect next version to be translated in a couple of languages (Alex is going to work on the French translation, to add to the English and Spanish ones).
This version will be the first one I want to be packaged for Fedora 12 & 13, and it’ll be the last version to work with Bonobo interface for Gnome panel (once Fedora 14 it’s released, and I install it to have a Gnome 2.32 to work with).
As you may know, we moved to Reading (Berks) one month ago. Before that we where living in Exeter (Devon), and moving implies a lot of difficulties: you’re in different city, and you don’t know where’s anything (from shops to pubs, including all the city services) .
But there’s one thing you never expect: the weather applet in your system doesn’t support your new city (tragic music cue).
I checked about current status of the weather applet in Gnome, and I found an interesting proposal dated two years ago, but nothing that shows progress.
I suffered this exact frustration some time ago when I was living in my home town, and now, after years living in different supported cities… does it mean my luck is over? Not necessarily: I know Python and I’m prepared to use it!
So after a couple of weeks hacking form time to time (whenever I had free time, not that much lately), Oraje Applet was born.
It’s not the best API ever (in fact, there’s no easy way to find a location without knowing the associated code, called WOEID), and sometimes the updates lag behind reality (AKA it’s raining and your applet says it isn’t), but overall it’s what I was looking for.
In the project page there’s a tarball with the first released version (0.1), and there’s a lot of work to do, but I think it’s kind of usable if you want to give it a try.
I’d like to package it for Fedora, but I didn’t have the time yet (any volunteer for that would be welcome!).
Update: you can find a WOEID using the Yahoo! GeoPlanet™ API. I need to check it deeply, because at first sight there are a couple of things I don’t like very much.
Alex is moving to Plymouth in a week and a half, and one of the things she’s going to face is a climate change: Plymouth (UK) is very different to Valencia (Spain).
About 14 degrees of temperature change, that’s so much! I hope she doesn’t get ill. She’s lived in Dublin for a year or so, so I think she will adapt fine to the weather.
I’m from Elche (Alicante, Spain), and the climate in Elche is very similar to the climate in Valencia: soft springs, autumns and winters, and hot summers, ever with high humidity levels (that makes you sweat and sweat in terrible summers, and a cold that chills your bones in winter). You’ll see more rain in Valencia than in Elche, though.
I know this is simplifying too much (because air conditioning can save you in summer), but this is not the kind of climate I like most. I prefer some cold, but softer summers, and definitely I like rainy days (not windy, please heh).
I was in Bilbao for 15 months, and you can hear about they climate that is awful, but I like it. Rainy, very soft summers, not so cold winters, and a very green land with a clean air pleasant to breath.
So I know what I like and what I don’t. What’s your perfect climate?
