Feature Request: Show evening weather

[Thangalin]

Prior to cycling to work in the morning, I'd like to know if I need to cart rain gear for the way home. The xfce4-weather-plugin sits in the lower-right hand corner of the panel and is almost perfect.

The problem is that it shows the current weather, which offers the same information as looking out the window. Clicking on the icon shows the daily forecast, including what to expect for the evening.

There does not appear to be a way to configure the software to show the evening forecast by default instead of the current conditions.

It would be convenient if the plug-in could be customized to display:

* a raincloud icon in the panel if the day is expected to end in showers (or partly cloudy); and
* the probability of precipitation.

[Fixitman Arizona (fixitmanarizona)]

Clicking on the indicator opens up the forecast, which includes morning, afternoon, evening, night, at least on mine. Is that so hard? Indicator is SUPPOSED to show current conditions.. in case you live in a basement with no windows, I suppose. It would be called forecast-indicator if it showed future conditions!

FOR OTHERS SEARCHING FOR A PARTICULAR PROBLEM I RAN INTO with this:
Just installed latest version (in a nicely packaged .deb file ) from Zesty into Xenial (Xubuntu 16.04) which solves the problems with the indicator message "Met.no LocationforecastLTS API states that this version of the webservice is deprecated, and the plugin needs to be adapted "
Why I didn't find the answer anywhere else on forums, I have no idea. People are looking to install the latest version and cannot.
You'll have to head to http://packages.ubuntu.com/zesty/xfce4-weather-plugin (available currently 5/2/2017) and select your package type then a mirror download. Then open with Gdebi package manager (or similar) It will warn you an older, stable version is available. Install anyway.
I spent an HOUR trying to install from some tar.bz file that didn't have .deb in it before finding this.
Yes, I confirm the Zesty package works fine on LTS 16.04 Xubuntu.

[Fixitman Arizona (fixitmanarizona)]

 edit: (available currently 5/2/2017) xfce4-weather-plugin (0.8.9-1) APRIL 2, 2017 sorry. I always had trouble translating months into numbers!

[Thangalin (thangalin-deactivatedaccount)]

> Is that so hard?

I wrote nothing about it being difficult.

It would be convenient to have the icon reflect the daily forecast, rather than being hard-coded to show the current weather. This was tagged as a feature request, not a feature demand. :-)

> Clicking on the indicator opens up the forecast... It would be called forecast-indicator if it showed future conditions!

Elaborate? Since the software has the capability of showing the forecast with a click, I don't see why eliminating one mouse click would necessitate a name change, especially if the default setting was to indicate the current weather.

[Theo Linkspfeifer (lastonestanding)]

Thangalin, please forward your request to the Xfce bug tracker. Thanks.

https://bugzilla.xfce.org/

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.