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Other Maemo Weather
@Maemo Summit 2009 Amsterdam

Vlad Vasilyev

OMWeather

Hildon-home widget(applet) for Maemo Platform

Uses GTK and Hildon

Main goals of the project Weather forecast display on Maemo devices

Creation of a convenient program for users

Use all features of the Maemo platform

OMWeather

Main features Current weather and forecast for 10 days

Temperature, humidity, pressure, wind, gust and other parameters

different unit systems for parameters:
Imperial units, Metric units.

Flexible parameters for weather forecast update

GPS for automatic selection of weather station

and many more configurable options

OMWeather

Other features Flexibility of applet's external appearance5 layouts

6 iconsets

5 variants of icon size

Changeable number of displayed icons

5 possible positions of the text around icons

Wide range of transparency for applet background

Choice of the font size and the font colour

OMWeather

Most popular third party application for Maemo up to date

Current development

Currently stable version - 0.25Adapted for Fremantle

Added new source for weather forecast (gismeteo.ru)

Added hour weather forecast for today

Added new mode Application

More finger-friendly UI

Added Animation

Current development

Settings in Diablo Choice Iconset

Units parameters

Update parameters

Layouts

Icon size

Number of icons

Font colour and size

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Settings in FremantleChoice Iconset

Units parameters

Update parameters

Widget style

Current development

Full redesign of Widget (applet)

Current development

Full redesign of Widget (applet)

Current development

Full redesign of Popup Windows

Current development

Full redesign of Settings Windows

Current development

Using HildonAnimation

We need rich animation

We will make animation for icon of weather forecast

OMWeather & HildonAnimation

We have 6 iconsets

More than 240 icons

Source code for each icon?

No! We will use Clutterscripts

Future development

Future development of a new version - 0.26 Core on object model (C++)

Various backends (Hilgon-Gtk, QT, Clutter)

Widget in statusbar

More Animations

More Sources

More attractive design by Andrew Zhilin

More possibilities for new hardware usage (for example orientation)

OMWeather

Thank you for your time!

...and enjoy the weather

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