gnome-panel clock is much too unstable

[Michael Schwendt]

As soon as the weather report features were integrated into the
gnome-panel clock applet, it became highly unstable. It crashes frequently
either when it is loaded or upon trying to configure it for its weather
features. After crashing (with bug-buddy not catching anything useful
unfortunately) and reloading several times, it still didn't display any
temperature. I can't be bothered to do further experiments with it due to
rawhide's extreme slowness.

[Mike Chambers]

On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 11:29 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>  As soon as the weather report features were integrated into the
>  gnome-panel clock applet, it became highly unstable. It crashes frequently
>  either when it is loaded or upon trying to configure it for its weather
>  features. After crashing (with bug-buddy not catching anything useful
>  unfortunately) and reloading several times, it still didn't display any
>  temperature. I can't be bothered to do further experiments with it due to
>  rawhide's extreme slowness. 
Yep, weather part doesn't work for me neither, get same thing.

As far as your slowness, havce you went to your services gui (or text
mode if that slow) and stopped/started services you don't need?  I do
that right after, even on tests and seems to help speed things up quite
a bit. Some service(s) that is started on installs always seem to slow
it down to a crawl initially until I stop quite a few that I don't need.

-- 
Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY

"The best lil town on Earth!"

[Andrew Farris]

Michael Schwendt wrote:
>  As soon as the weather report features were integrated into the
>  gnome-panel clock applet, it became highly unstable. It crashes frequently
>  either when it is loaded or upon trying to configure it for its weather
>  features. After crashing (with bug-buddy not catching anything useful
>  unfortunately) and reloading several times, it still didn't display any
>  temperature. I can't be bothered to do further experiments with it due to
>  rawhide's extreme slowness. 
Well it is very slow displaying every time you left-click the clock to display 
the popup... but its working for me, displaying weather and the sunrise map 
fine.  The slowness may be the lack of caching or preemptive loading for the map 
(just a guess).

If you have not tried this in awhile (last 2 weeks or so) remove the clock from 
your panel, kill gnome-panel, and then add the clock again.

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[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 02:57:03 -0800, Andrew Farris wrote:

>  Well it is very slow displaying every time you left-click the clock
> to display 
>  the popup... but its working for me, displaying weather and the sunrise map 
>  fine.  The slowness may be the lack of caching or preemptive loading for the map 
>  (just a guess). 
It crashed a first time when I wanted to "Find..." a location. After
managing to choose a location and changing temperature to Celsius and wind
speed to km/h, it still didn't display any weather details anywhere.

Before, in Rawhide, it crashes already when taking a harmless look at
the new weather-related preferences. ;)

On the contrary, with F8 the separate weather applet displays a small
icon and the temperature always. And left-click on it displays the
"Current conditions" dialog immediately.

>  If you have not tried this in awhile (last 2 weeks or so) remove the
> clock from 
>  your panel, kill gnome-panel, and then add the clock again. 
Last time I started doing that in rawhide, it refused to load. I could
have started to look for old config values and get rid of them. But
instead, I installed F9 Alpha. So, the experience with the new clock
applet code is with F9 Alpha installed on Feb 10th, then updated to
Rawhide on the same day.

[Mike Chambers]

On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 13:21 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:

>  On the contrary, with F8 the separate weather applet displays a
> small
>  icon and the temperature always. And left-click on it displays the
>  "Current conditions" dialog immediately. 
You can still add the weather applet just like in F8, until the
time/weather stuff is fixed :)

-- 
Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY

"The best lil town on Earth!"
>

[Jim Cornette]

Mike Chambers wrote:
>  On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 13:21 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>  
> > On the contrary, with F8 the separate weather applet displays a small
> > icon and the temperature always. And left-click on it displays the
> > "Current conditions" dialog immediately.
>  
>  You can still add the weather applet just like in F8, until the
>  time/weather stuff is fixed :)
>   
Are they going to add news and sports and stock tickers to the applet 
also? I think they should not combine all those features into one 
applet. I use two weather locations and would hate to have two clocks 
just to get two weather locations.

Gweather applet is good enough and more versatile. They should abandon 
the venture to mess up the clock.

Jim

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