2.0.1: Fixes for the Restoring

Contains several fixes and documentation improvements that were missing in 2.0:

• The start command in the readme uses --forecast now
• The temperature text and the forecast icons are now better readable on bright backgrounds, they get a shadow background
• Fix: The night mode was broken, searched for weather.jpg_night instead of weather_night.jpg
• The image for an overcast day had a too busy texture in the lower area, it got replaced
• Translation fixes
• Credit in the Readme for used weather APIs DWD and MET

Restoring izulu

This release fixes izulu. The old APIs were all gone. They had to be replaced and the code accordingly changed as well. The weather and location functionality are now provided by brightsky.dev, api.met.no and location.services.mozilla.com. These APIs might very well be changed in the future, however, from now on APIs that need an API key will be avoided. As will be hosting a server component.

2.0 also removes and changes existing functionality, partly because of the API changes, partly to let the script be easier to maintain. Instead of specifying the location via --city, it now can only be supplied by --latitude LAT:LON. The forecast icon is now triggered by --forefast or -f, instead of --preview or -p, and shows the forecast in 12 hour intervals. Selecting images randomly from flickr and local directories was removed (at least for now), as well as the radar image display - the corresponding config options are gone as well.

Please also check the Changelog.

Fixing Arch

Changes:

• Fix: Switch to DejaVu font to prevent Arch compatibility issue
• Fix: OSD not triggered in daemon mode when getting random images
• Fix: Support for Mate DE

Move to Dark Sky Weather Api

1.0 has a lot of internal changes, but also some that users will notice.

The main change is the move to the Dark Sky Forecast Api via a custom server (written in perl and provided in the repo). The new Api knows less specific weather states, please consult the Readme to see the new list. Lots of now unneeded code was removed and some fixes for random mode and flickr were applied.

Move weather code 39

Prominently used weather code 39 was used for thunderstorms before, but now it means "Scattered Showers". It is likely that other codes changed as well and more fixes will be necessary.

Workaround yahoo oauth restriction

Yahoo closed the weather api to public and access with an api token. Clients should use oauth. Instead of doing that, we'll temporarily use the yql api to get weather data, which still works without oauth.

0.6.1

• contains new random mode with images from flickr-collections

v0.5

First release using github, replacing the .deb placed manually in the repo.

Attached are the debs build by the ppa for this code state. Last changes are the new options --compat unity, --temperature-gravity gravity and --temperature-margin margin, all used to control the placement of the temperature display, to work on more Desktops.