[Perlpanel-devel] WeatherWatch version 0.2

[Thomas]

I have released a new version of WeatherWatch, addressing some of Moshe's and 
Gavin's concerns, as well as adding features I had on the to-do list in my 
head.  There is now a dialog for searching for you weather.com location code, 
a help system, some tooltips in the configuration dialog, support for the _() 
function for translations, error checking when grabbing information from the 
server (both for invalid location codes and for an inability to connect to 
the server) and icons are now stored in a more sensible location.

Some concerns still not addressed:
Gavin suggested that i use Gnome2::VFS to grab the weather.com pages, citing 
that this could be done asynchronously, however I have not been able to find 
any documentation on doing this asynchronously, if anybody has any 
links/info/help on this matter, let me know and I will try to incorporate 
this into the next release.

It was also suggested that Celsius be the default units, however since 
weather.com has very few non-US locations (as far as I know), it seems that 
most of the people who would be able to use this would want Fahrenheit.  Of 
course, the optimal solution would be to determine the default from the 
user's locale, but I was unable to find any information on this either.  
Again, if anybody has any links/help/etc, it would be appreciated.

Finally, the link: 
http://www.rit.edu/~tfs1812/cgi-bin/document.pl?document=weatherwatch
or download it directly at:
http://www.rit.edu/~tfs1812/WeatherWatch-0.2.tar.gz

Thomas Stephens
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