You should, this is a huge achievement that has been worked on for quite a while now.
You can, actually. I live in a pretty small town and it picks up my location quite well for the weather.
Even if it didn’t, one issue doesn’t mean we’re not allowed to celebrate anything, and the issue in this case isn’t even with GNOME itself, but with the provider for the Weather app (I believe it’s OpenWeather).
It doesn’t use open weather unfortunately. It uses the Norwegian Meteorology Institute and their weather prediction is poor/entirely inaccurate for much of the world. I do wish open weather was an option especially since it’s easy to get your own weather api key.
Thx but that doesn’t make it more consumer ready. If someone looks the first time into gnome and he can’t add his location he might think GNOME is bad because it can’t even handle weather.
It’s easier to create an alias to curl wttr.in/Berlin and access weather data from terminal than using the workaround
I’m not too sure I should celebrate such thing while you can’t even get the weather for your location in GNOME unless you live in the capital
Nonsense. This is huge, as I suspect many people, like myself, switched to KDE because it was the DE that was perfect for gaming in Wayland.
So this is huge for the community! Gaming is now possible in two of the most popular and used DEs.
As for the weather application. Don’t blame GNOME, blame the weather provider (OpenWeather).
It doesn’t use open weather unfortunately. It uses the Norwegian Meteorology Institute and their weather prediction is poor/entirely inaccurate for much of the world. I do wish open weather was an option especially since it’s easy to get your own weather api key.
The weather isn’t openweather’s fault. It’s a limitation in libgweather (a gnome project). They have to manually approve locations for them to work.
It’s a dumb workaround but this script lets you add custom locations https://gitlab.com/julianfairfax/scripts/-/blob/main/add-location-to-gnome-weather.sh
Thx but that doesn’t make it more consumer ready. If someone looks the first time into gnome and he can’t add his location he might think GNOME is bad because it can’t even handle weather.
It’s easier to create an alias to
curl wttr.in/Berlinand access weather data from terminal than using the workaroundThat’s not even true. Also how does this have to do with VR?
But who uses that? I recall using a gnome plugin a few years ago that required an Open weather API key that you could use any location for.
True, kind of silly you have to install an extension because the default gnome weather won’t just let you use open weather.
Wrong place, wrong time