Meteo-Qt
Version: 0.9.5 Web: http://bit.ly/2ppd0Am
For years we’ve been collecting handy desktop applications that can help you build a customtailored, lightweight desktop that would do just what you need, without tons of services and backends eating your CPU resources. The great Meteo-Qt is one of these, and hardly needs further introduction. However, there’s an endless line of weather apps out there, so here’s why you should use this one.
Meteo-Qt is a compact application that sits in the system tray and shows detailed weather information when you click the icon. The current data as well as the forecast are fetched from the OpenWeatherMap website, so you get the temperature, wind speed, cloudiness, pressure, humidity together with sunrise and sunset times for almost any location on Earth. MeteoQt5 uses Python and Qt5 components, but unlike various KDE plasmoids with similar functionality, it doesn’t use QML and thus fits in well on any desktop. To make Meteo-Qt run on your own desktop, make sure you have Python 3 bindings with Qt5, LXML and SIP (install the respective packages via your package manager). Once the runtime dependencies stated above are met, the application can be run from its sources by the following command: $ python3 /path/to/meteo-qt/meteo_qt/ meteo_qt.py
When the application loads, rightclick its icon in the system tray and go to the Settings section. From there you can change your location, units, connection details, tray icon look and behaviour, font size, auto start mode and other useful settings. Meteo-Qt does want you to register at OpenWeatherMap and get your personal key in order to pair the MeteoQt desktop part with your online account. It takes a couple of minutes and doesn’t bother you any time afterwards. The icon updates weather statistics once every 30 minutes, which, again, can be altered to your liking.
“It doesn’t use QML and thus fits in well on any desktop.”