Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 71263
Gnome weather does not update the weather
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:45:26 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020724 Description of problem: No matter what city I pick, or how often I try to click "update," or how long I wait, the weather applet does not show the current weather and complains that "Retrieval failed." Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Add Gnome Weather to your panel 2. Right click, choose Preferences, choose a city (a major city like NYC if you suspect a lack of weather data for my city (though that isn't the case)) 3. Wait as long as you like for the weather update to take place (or try to force the issue with "Update" on the right-click menu) Actual Results: Nothing happens. Everything remains stuck at the "no weather to show" defaults. Expected Results: I should see the current weather in my area, or at the least, if I pick a major city, I should see weather data there. Additional info: There is no firewall to block web connections, and other network connections are working just fine. There are no errors in .xsession-errors for gnome weather.
I just figured out how to get it to pick a location--if I *double-click* the name of the location I want the weather checked for, it will update as appropriate. I can't say this is particularly obvious behavior, since I know of no other program requiring this sort of action to select out of a tree. Also, if I bring the preferences back up, my prior selection is not highlighted.
To make things worse, the applet consistantly forgets where I am when it is time to update the weather automatically. (I.e., after about 30 minutes of showing current local weather, it switches back to its original "huh?").
Same here. Applet always *forgets* which city I chose and the only way to get weather report is to double-click on a city in preferences dialog box again and again. Maybe it's solved in GNOME 2.0.1 (RC1)
The upstream ChangeLog contains the following (bug numbers are on bugzilla.gnome.org): 2002-07-16 Kevin Vandersloot <kfv101@psu.edu> * gweather-pref.c: properly save the new location when changed in the prefs dialog. Adapted from patch by Deepa Chacko Pillai. Should fix bug #86631, #88182, and #79787 Are you guys using gnome-applets 2.0.1? It should contain this change, I believe.
Ok, with 2.0.1 the applet now remembers where I am. However, should I really have to *double-click* the city name in the tree to select it? That seems utterly at odds with how the rest of the user interface works/used to work, but GNOME 2 has changed other things as well. Is this some new GNOME 2 thing or am I right that this is incorrect/poor behavior?
I agree the double-click is wrong, but it is much less wrong than the applet just plain not working. ;-) I filed the double click issue upstream, we will get a fix if it's made there: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90691 Closing bug since the main issue is resolved.
Fix confirmed with gnome-applets-2.0.1-2.