No menu, no mouse over text, no icon changes

[Moritz Naumann]

Unforutnately the indicator-weather indicator does not provide _any_ information since I upgraded from the version in Ubuntu to the latest PPA version. There is no way to interface with the indicator-weather icon: no menu, no mouse over effects, and the icon only displays as a red balloon with cloud and sun. There seems to be also no configuration file (or none I can find) and no --help and --verbose (nor any other) command line parameters. I happaned to come across a set of log files in ~/.cache/indicator-weather.log after studying the source code, though (I assume this will be appended to this bug report).

The reason I upgraded to the PPA version in the first place is that the version which ships with Natty kept crashing minutes after login for the first weeks I ran it, then, after an update, kept freezing (there were no menu nor icon updates no mouse over effects then, too).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: indicator-weather 11.05.31~natty6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-10.46-generic 2.6.38.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-10-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: indicator_weather
Date: Tue Jul 12 18:29:42 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de_DE:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: indicator-weather
ThirdParty: True
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-06-20 (22 days ago)

[Vadim Rutkovsky (roignac)]

Please, make sure you have a file in /usr/share/indicator-weather/media/icon.png

There is a workaround for this - just open a menu for any indicator and press left arrow button several times. The menu for weather indicator indicator will appear. After the indicator is configured, correct icon will appear.

[Moritz Naumann (mnaumann)]

$ ls -lah /usr/share/indicator-weather/media/icon.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6,3K 2011-05-30 11:45 /usr/share/indicator-weather/media/icon.png

The workaround works, and the icon changes after configuration has succeeded, but the menu still doesn't show up when I click on either weather icon or temperature.

[Dave Vree (hdave)]

I am seeing this on a fresh install of Ubuntu 12.04 64bit with indicator-weather installed from repos. I can pull down the menu, but the icon never changes and the temperature label never appears.

[Moritz Naumann (mnaumann)]

To me this is not a duplicate of bug #964365. While the crashes are also discussed here, this bug is primarily about the lack of a usable user interface. This problem occurs right at the start of the application, but the crash only occurs after a while.

[Joshua Tasker (jtasker)]

Can't reproduce. Is this still an issue with the latest builds (13.05.xx)?

[Moritz Naumann (mnaumann)]

I'm no longer using this software now, in 2013, due to the numerous issues it had.

[Joshua Tasker (jtasker)]

I am closing this bug then, since I cannot verify that it still exists. If anyone can confirm it exists, feel free to reopen it or file a new bug (and please attach your ~/.cache/indicator-weather.log file)