W Sanders wrote:
> I thought I would contribute this if it has not been already, since I
> am a bit of a weather nerd.
> 
> You can easily add locations to gweather. Unfortunately, the source (NWS)
> is fixed and the applet can only retrieve forecasts form the NWS as far as
> I know.
> 
> - Edit the file /usr/share/gweather/Locations

This file doesn't exist in recent builds.  There is, however, a 
/usr/share/gnome-applets/gweather/Locations.xml file.  Adding locations 
to this file appears to be significantly more complex, requiring the user 
to spell a location in dozens of different languages with non-ascii 
character sets, and knowing the latitude and longitude of the location. 
(not to mention that the customizations would be lost on every OS upgrade)

Note to whomever maintains gweather-applet-2:  This design seems 
suboptimal to me.  Rather than hard-coding every location on the planet 
into an XML file, wouldn't it be simpler to provide an interface in the 
tool to allow the user to search locations on the site providing the data?

-Seb

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