[Tango-artists] weather-*-night request

[Frank Solensky]

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> From: Frank Solensky <frank at solensky.org>
> To: Tango-artists at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: [Tango-artists] weather-*-night request
> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 08:41:43 -0400
> 
> Hi all..
> 
> Some time back I had written some code for the Gnome gweather applet to
> calculate sunrise and sunset times.  This lead to the request for the
> weather-clear-night and weather-few-clouds-night icons that the applet
> uses to replace the weather-clear and weather-few-clouds icons when the
> current time suggests that it's dark outside.  Thanks muchly for those.
> 
> It couldn't have been more than a few days after the code was released
> before someone filed a bug against it: "the weather applet is showing a
> full moon when it's actually only 17% full".  Sigh...
> 
> I've written some more code to calculate the current phase of the moon
> and would like to request some artwork to be done up for it.  It would
> entail creating either eight or sixteen images so that the applet could
> select the icon that most closely approximates the current moon phase.
> And promise that if someone files a bug that the icons don't include
> solar and lunar eclipses, I'll change the status to "cannot
> reproduce" ;-)
> 
> Would this list be the correct place to send the request for the
> artwork?  If not, please advise.  And thanks in advance.

Someone had started work on this but has apparently disappeared: recent
attempts to reach him by email have been bounced with a "no such user"
error.

The code that I've got ready allows for sixteen different results: eight
clear sky and eight cloudy skies.  Could someone else take this up?