GNOME Weather is a standalone and open source weather forecast application, specifically designed for the GNOME desktop environment. Actually, it is the first ever dedicated weather app for GNOME. The application has been engineered to display current weather conditions of a single or multiple locations, predictions for three days ahead, radar maps, hourly weather forecast, as well as day and night forecast for each day of the week.
Notifies users on dangerous weather conditions
It can notify users on dangerous weather conditions, and automatically downloads the weather conditions from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute. Its graphical user interface (GUI) is very similar to the one of the GNOME Boxes application, except for the fact that it provides users with basic instructions on what to do with it.
The good thing about this program is that it allows users to add as many locations as they want. They will all be shown on the main window, called World Weather, so you can immediately view the weather conditions of a specific location.
Getting started with GNOME Weather
Clicking the “New” button is your only option when using the GNOME Weather application for the first time. You’ll be prompted by a search dialog, where you have to type, select and add a new location.
When clicking on a location, the application will immediately display it in a colored, dedicated screen (in the same window), providing users with weather conditions for the current day, as well as predictions for two more days.
The bad thing about this application is that it has not been integrated into the GNOME-Shell user interface, as it runs in its own window. This can be a little annoying for many users, which prefer to add a weather extension that’s displayed at all times on the main panel.
Bottom line
Summing up, GNOME Weather is a very basic weather application for the GNOME desktop environment. While it can certainly be improved with more detailed weather forecasts and predictions for an entire week, it should definitely be integrated with the GNOME Shell or Panel.
What is new in this release:
- Translation updates.
What is new in version 3.24.0:
- Updates for the new version of gjs [Philip Chimento, #778641]
- Improvements to the build system for GNOME Builder [Simon Schampijer]
- Translation updates
What is new in version 3.20.2:
- Minor bug fixes
- Translation updates
What is new in version 3.20.1:
- Fix initial application state when geolocation is disabled
- Fix temperature unit shown in the menu when not explicitly configured
- Translation updates
What is new in version 3.16.0:
- Translation updates and fixes.
What is new in version 3.14.1 / 3.16 Beta 1:
- Fix history handling [#741837]
- Fixed crash when Geoclue is not available [#742460]
- Improved the forecast for the current location
- Translation updates
What is new in version 3.14.1:
- Fixed compatibility with gtk+ 3.14 [#737818]
- Translation updates
What is new in version 3.14.0:
- Translation updates and new languages
What is new in version 3.14 RC1:
- Translation updates and fixes
What is new in version 3.14 Beta 2:
- Added high contrast icon [Andreas Nilsson, #707286]
- Translation updates
What is new in version 3.14 Beta 1:
- Completely redesign the application [Saurabh, #733236]
- Remove libgd submodule and make the application noarch
- Disable the search provider by default [#734048]
- Translation updates
What is new in version 3.13.4:
- We now use package.js from gjs upstream
- Fixed search-provider [Debarshi Ray, #732344]
- Misc fixes
- Translation updates
What is new in version 3.13.3:
- Updates to the appstream metadata, and new screenshots (requires a new version of libappstream-glib, or building with --disable-appstream-util)
- Various miscellaneous fixes and updates
- Translation updates
What is new in version 3.13.2:
- Appdata metadata was updated to the new specification
- The installation folder for the application was renamed to $(datadir)/org.gnome.Weather, removing the final .Application part
- The search provided was split into a background service, to avoid triggering geolocation without the user consent (only the frontend application does it now)
- Translation updates
What is new in version 3.12.1:
- Translation updates
What is new in version 3.13.1:
- Show local time in city view [Saurabh_P, #705050]
- Add geolocation support (automatically add the current location to the world view) [Saurabh_P, #704268]
- Translation updates
What is new in version 3.12.0:
- Translation updates
What is new in version 3.12 RC1:
- Fix alignment of placeholder text for first run [#721732]
- Build fixes [Shivani Poddar, #725942]
- Translation updates
What is new in version 3.11.5:
- JS sources are now loaded from a GResource, which should improve startup times as it requires fewer seeks on disk
- All dialogs were converted to use a header bar
- A new infrastructure for application tests exists, and minimal automated testing for the world view is included
- Translation updates
What is new in version 3.11.4:
- Fixes for RTL layouts [Yosef Or Boczko, #721123]
- Updates to the packaging system
- Added the ability to build an RPM from the upstream tarball.
- Replaced GtkHeaderBar with GtkActionBar (and gtk+ dependency raised)
- Fixed the .desktop file for legacy environments (not using GIO to launch the application)
- Translation updates
What is new in version 3.11.3:
- Always show a title in the header bar [#720322]
- CityView is now consistent with other apps wrt the back button [#720321]
- We now follow the HIGs for standard items in the app menu
- The sidebar can show forecast for today and tomorrow at all times
- We no longer show the night before the day, which was reported as confusing
- Translation updates
What is new in version 3.10.1:
- Translation updates and fixes.
What is new in version 3.10.0:
- Translation updates.
What is new in version 3.10 RC:
- We now delay showing the window until the view is fully loaded
- We make use of the spinner next to the app menu when refreshing the forecasts
- Translation updates
What is new in version 3.8.2:
- Update libgd to master
- Fix detection of source trees at startup
- Translation updates
Requirements:
- GNOME
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