Gnome Weather has not provided forecasts for UK locations for some time (like 18+ months); due to the UK Met Office having changed the location of its forecasts page and the format of such relocated pages. (note reports are still given). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install gnome-applets 2. In Gweather, select a UK location 3. Be amazed as it reports forecasts are not available. Actual Results: No forecasts Expected Results: Given a forecast If anyone's interested in having this working in Gentoo, then I have a patch that works (and has done for as long as "official" gweather has been broken. Note that the Locations file is not complete as I'm not that interested in more than a few locations. This patch will be attached as soon as the bug is registered in Bugzilla.
Created attachment 35877 [details, diff] Patch (v. Gnome applets/gweather 2.6.2) to enable UK forecasts Attached patch fixes the problem (assuming it's a technical problem rather than the UK Met Office threatening to sue to developers).
Has this patch been submitted upstream? That would be the proper location for it.
It was submitted upstream at least twice when the UK Met Office changed format (at least 18 months ago). *Nothing happens*. I'll try again.
got links to those upstream bugs ?
No links. I just mailed the patches to the maintainers advertised email address. They get ignored, so I don't bother any more.
you should file bugs, mailing patches will usually get ignored. If you get a lot of mail like most devs do, bugzilla is the only way to get some bug triaging done, please respect that. I strongly suggest you just file a bug with your patches upstream.
Finally got round to reporting this upstream (sorry we wife hijacked all my bandwidth while the BBC was streaming the Olympics and I then forgot). This is Gnome bugs 140677 & 152439. It has been fixed for Gnome 2.8 by one Alan Cox. Please close here.
Fixed upstream, will be in next release. Case closed.
