Comment 31 for bug 703815

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Panagiotis Skintzos (ph7) wrote : Re: [Bug 703815] Re: change layout by omgubuntu mockup

> I agree with the comment about only showing sunset or sunrise, depending
> on which is due next.
Hmm, personally I'd like to see both
>
> I would like to see today's min/max temperatures in the menu itself
> rather than just in an extended forecast window. Perhaps the min
> temperature could be (tastefully) coloured blue, and the max temperature
> could be red.
> Maybe the icon in the menu, instead of just duplicating the indicator
> icon and showing current conditions, could show today's forecast weather
> conditions. The forecast max and min could be vertically positioned
> next to it (maybe on the right?). If you put the icon and the forecast
> temperatures inside a box slightly darker than the rest of the menu then
> it would be visually clear that this forecast data is separate to the
> rest of the menu, which is mostly current observations. To make this
> even clearer, you could have the word "Later:" in tiny letters at the
> top of the box. Or would this all be too cluttered?
>
Yes I'd like to see a quick forecast too.
But better not mess with colours. They may not look right with user's
current theme.

Perhaps we could put the forecast info (min/max/condition/icon) on the
right side of the "Forecast" menuitem.

> I think the "Feels like" temperature should be a separate menu item,
> just above Humidity - if it is just a temperature in parentheses then
> it's not immediately clear what it is. (The "Feels like" temperature
> can be implemented - see bug #743553)
Agreed

>
> One other minor suggestion - "Wind speed" should just be "Wind" since
> there's a direction as well as the speed.
>
Agreed