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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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