2y ago

Add YOUR city to the Gnome weather app

cross-posted from: !linux@lemmy.eco.br | https://lemmy.eco.br/post/1969330

I've been using Gnome for about 10 months and it always bothered me that my city (with more than a million inhabitants) was not found in the Weather program.

I looked for solutions several times and never found them, until I found this thread yesterday. That the user Julian made a script that solves this problem. you just have to run and enter the name of your city and then confirm.

It occurred to me that some people might not know how to run scripts, so here's a brief tutorial:

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Damn, how very user friendly.
This is amazing! I'm not using Gnome, but moments like this are the reason why I love Linux so much.
- As a gnome user and huge Linux enthusiast, this should not have to exist. Gnome weather is just badly designed
  
  Yeah, it's a terrible thing that you have to do this to get your city into the weather app, but I simply love the fact that you can do that, whereas on some proprietary system, you might wait months for the fix.
- For me it does, the creator said he adjusted it, maybe you tried when it was still wrong?
  I have checked my temp. Against the source (norway service) and it was right.
  I am on my phone now but i can print the page later.
Afaik the problem is solved within the code. I remember having compiled the app myself. It's just a matter of time that it's solved.
BUT it's weird that this is so low priority to all gnome devs. It seems like noone cares about the correct weather. The source of weather is also not really perfect.

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