17 de diciembre de 2012

My Weather Indicator 0.5.90 released with fancy desktop weather widget and numerous fixes

My Weather Indicator is a handy appindicator that contains a solid amount of weather-related functionalities, allowing the user to easily observe weather conditions by simple looking at the Unity panel (where the appindicator is housed).
My Weather Indicator has been updated to a definitely interesting release, 0.5.90, introducing a solid amount of fixes, optimizations, as well as new visual additions.
After launching the app, the user is to notice a refreshed appindicator menu with various contained entries being relocated, such as Preferences (entry exposed now at the bottom of the menu).
Along with Forecast, My Weather Indicator comes with a built-in Forecast Map, clicking on it, summons a detailed map where weather informations are available; the newly released 0.5.90 version comes with additional clickable controls, such as Snow, Rain, Sea Level Pressure, Relative humidity, Air Temperature, Meteorological Wind Direction, Wind Modulus, controls that enlarge the map's functionality.
Furthermore, as a base map, OpenCycleMap has been added, presenting a different map view (as compared with the already-present OpenStreetMap).

The mentioned controls can be enabled/disable by checking/unchecking them, checking Rain, renders rain-specific details on the map.
A definitely exciting feature introduced by My Weather Indicator 0.5.90 is the weather widget, handy big-sized widget that visually presents the current weather conditions.

Enabling the widget, summons a fancy big-sized icon (such as Sun, Earth surrounded by clouds, etc) backed by a degrees label, visual approach that both beautifies the desktop and properly displays weather conditions.


In order to enable the widget, navigate to My Weather Indicator appindicator-->Preferences-->Location-->check Show widget, action that exposes the weather widget on the desktop, while retaining the appindicator (and its full functionality).
The mentioned widget bears a full attitude, meaning, the user is able to hide the appindicator (while the widget is displayed on the desktop) via My Weather Indicator appindicator-->Preferences-->Location-->check Hide indicator when show widget, action that temporarily hides the appindicator and displays only the widget.
(Re)enabling the appindicator is as simple as clicking on the weather widget, clicking process that acts as a toggle, clicking on it, shows the appindicator, clicking again on it, hides the appindicator, etc.
The weather widget features a both absolute and movable approach, allowing users to move the widget to a preferred desktop area (bottom area, top-right screen corner, etc) by clicking on it & holding & dragging it to a preferred place, furthermore, the widget is displayed on top of focused windows (opening nautilus keeps the widget visible, yet, opening Unity, hides the widget under the Dash).

The mentioned features, along with numerous bug fixes (such as improved second location, sunrise and sunset properly calculated, proper German cities reports, accurate atmospheric pressure, etc), come to deliver a more polished and stable My Weather Indicator release.
How do we install My Weather Indicator 0.5.90?

Add the following official PPA (Quantal)
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:atareao/atareao


sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install my-weather-indicator




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