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gnome-applets package

weather applet default units should change by location

Bug #37938 reported by Alvin Thompson on 2006-04-03

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	GNOME Applets	New	Low	gnome-bugs #328785
	gnome-applets (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Low	Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

1. add weather applet to your panel.
2. open weather applet preferences.
3. set all units to 'Default'
4. select as location North America-->United States-->Maryland-->Baltimore-->Glen Burnie.
5! update weather. the units are in centigrade or the temperature reads as 'Unknown'. locations should have the proper default units associated with them (in the U.S. that is Fahrenheight).

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Alvin Thompson (alvint-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2006-04-04:

using updated dapper (64-bit).

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote on 2006-04-04:

Thanks for your bug report. Which locale do you use? gweather's code makes use of that information to determine which units are used, which makes more sense than location-based units, in my opinion.

Changed in gnome-applets:
assignee:	nobody → desktop-bugs
status:	Unconfirmed → Needs Info

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Alvin Thompson (alvint-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2006-04-04:

i use the default (US english) locale.

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Carthik Sharma (carthik) wrote on 2006-08-10:

Alvin,

Do you still have this problem? I use the same locale as you and trying the location you specified doesn't yield any errors as described.

If the problem has been resloved, please let us know.

Thanks in advance.

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Alvin Thompson (alvint-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2006-08-11:

yes. when there is no location set, the applet now shows '0F'. but once you specify a location (in this case, Glen Burnie), the units are once again in centigrade (right now it says 24C). repeat the steps as above and it happens every time.

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Alvin Thompson (alvint-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2006-08-11:

still using Dapper, though. maybe it's fixed in Edgy.

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote on 2006-12-13:

Did anybody have a chance to test this with edgy or feisty already?

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Alvin Thompson (alvint-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2006-12-13:

not working with edgy. tried with 4 different computers.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2006-12-14:

There is a bug upstream about that: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=328785

Changed in gnome-applets:
status:	Needs Info → Confirmed

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2006-12-15

Changed in gnome-applets:
status:	Unknown → Unconfirmed

Sebastien Bacher (seb128) on 2008-09-13

Changed in gnome-applets:
status:	Confirmed → Triaged

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2010-09-16

Changed in gnome-applets:
importance:	Unknown → Low

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Per Ångström (autark) wrote on 2010-12-10:

#10

If you have more than one weather applet, say one for Washington (D.C.) and one for Moscow (Russia), I think it would be unintuitive to default the Washington temperature to Fahrenheit and the the Moscow temperature to Centigrade. The default settings should be picked up from the locale - as Bill Nottingham says in the Gnome bug: "LC_MEASUREMENT should be fine".