Bug#819130: mate-applets: Weather report: bad radar maps

[Kevin Williams]

Package: mate-applets
Version: 1.12.1-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

        The default radar maps in Weather Report applet are sometimes
inappropriate.  For example, the Springfield, MO radar map shows Springfield at
top-center instead of the center of the map.  While it's possible to specify a
custom radar map instead, finding a suitable one online is difficult because
the easily-found ones tend to require Javascript.

        I propose that a good fix might be to add a configuration option to use
a different city's radar map.  In my Springfield, MO example I think the Kansas
City map is more appropriate, so it'd be nice if I could choose to display that
map instead.

        Alternatively, perhaps the applet could explain how to pull the desired
map from the source (which appears to be weather.com) so we could find the URL
ourselves, or perhaps the custom field could be auto-populated with the URL for
the current location's default radar map.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages mate-applets depends on:
ii  gir1.2-mate-panel          1.12.2-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas  3.18.1-1
ii  gvfs                       1.26.2-1+b1
ii  libatk1.0-0                2.18.0-1
ii  libc6                      2.22-3
ii  libcairo2                  1.14.6-1
ii  libcpufreq0                008-1
ii  libdbus-1-3                1.10.8-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2           0.106-1
ii  libfontconfig1             2.11.0-6.3
ii  libfreetype6               2.6.3-3
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0         2.32.3-1.2
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.46.2-3
ii  libgtk2.0-0                2.24.30-1
ii  libgtksourceview2.0-0      2.10.5-2
ii  libgtop-2.0-10             2.32.0-1
ii  libice6                    2:1.0.9-1+b1
ii  libmate-desktop-2-17       1.12.1-1
ii  libmate-panel-applet-4-1   1.12.2-1
ii  libmateweather1            1.12.1-1
ii  libnotify4                 0.7.6-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0             1.38.1-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0        1.38.1-1
ii  libpangoft2-1.0-0          1.38.1-1
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0      0.105-14.1
ii  libsm6                     2:1.2.2-1+b1
ii  libstartup-notification0   0.12-4
ii  libupower-glib3            0.99.4-2
ii  libwnck22                  2.30.7-5
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.6.3-1
ii  libxml2                    2.9.3+dfsg1-1
ii  mate-applets-common        1.12.1-1
ii  mate-panel                 1.12.2-1
ii  python                     2.7.11-1
ii  python-gi                  3.18.2-2+b1

Versions of packages mate-applets recommends:
ii  cpufrequtils         008-1
ii  mate-media           1.12.1-1
ii  mate-polkit          1.12.0-3
ii  mate-system-monitor  1.12.1-1

mate-applets suggests no packages.

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