Kiggs, Did you ever find the code for Kampala?
I made the switch to Evolution and was looking to take advantage of this weather lookup. I have visited the site you mentioned but there is no Kampala code Joseph On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 12:58, Kiggundu Mukasa wrote: > Something had always been bugging me about evolution. I could not get > a Ugandan weather summary. > > If you to to Tools ---> Settings --> Summary Preferences --> Weather > You can choose Africa and have only South Africa (south of the sahara > as a choice). > After some googling I found there is file (which in SuSE is in) > /opt/gnome2/share/evolution/1.4/Locations > > Edit this file and add your cities. The trick is to get the 4 letter > code for your city. I found a web page that gave the 4 letter code as > the ending of the web page > http://weatherpixie.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=6b72da40ce24826032e5f0108226a4e0&htm=0&type=&trooper=1&lang=®ion=1&country=Uganda&place=HUEN > So for Entebbe the code is HUEN for Arua the code is HUAR for Nairobi > the code is HKJK > > So go down the Location file until you find Morocoo, then do a cut and > paste and replace with the relevant cities you want. > > make a backup of "Locations" before you edit so if you screw up you > can backtrack. > > Now I have a huge set of cities. Will see over the next few days if > it tells as much truth as our local weather guys. > > Kiggs > > -- > **************** ***************************** > Kiggundu Mukasa # Computer Network Consultancy### > KYM-NET LTD. # Intranets & Internet Solutions# > Plot 80 Kanjokya Street > P.O. Box 173 Kampala, Uganda > Tel: +256 77 972255 > +256 71 221141 > Fax: +256 31 262122 > ************************************************************************* --------------------------------------------- This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
