Bug#839959: mate-applets: Unable to get weather information about my city and no knowledge where the settings/preferences are saved.

[shirish शिरीष]

Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-applets/issues/224

On 24/01/2017, Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel at das-netzwerkteam.de> wrote:
> Hi Shirish,
>
> On  Do 06 Okt 2016 21:28:47 CEST, shirish शिरीष wrote:
>
>> Package: mate-applets
>> Version: 1.16.0-1
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>> I tried to set weather for the city but failed. It shows my city but
>> doesn't update the weather. I followed all the instructions at yelp
>> "help:mateweather/mateweather-prefs" but that didn't help. The
>> man-page itself for mateweather is obsolete and the stamp on the
>> manpage says 2002 when it should be 2012 probably. I also tried to
>> find if there is/was a section 8 man page but was unsuccessful in that
>> as well. I even looked at bugs listed upstream and the wiki but was
>> unsuccessful at finding more information from both those sources as
>> well as Arch wiki.
>
> Is this still an issue for you? If so, please let us know "your" city,
> so that we can really check and reproduce your issue.
>
> If this issue persists, please file an upstream bug report (if not
> already done) and link this Debian bug report to the upstream report.
>
> Thanks+Greets,
> Mike
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HI Mike,

It has not been working for more than a year, so I would say it is a
persistent issue.

Have linked to an upstream report.

The city is Asia > India > Pune

Wish there was a way to manipulate the applets via CLI, hopefully get
bit more info. as to what's happening in the background.

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