GKrellWeather (fork) 2.2.0 Released

GKrellWeather (fork) 2.2.0 has been released.

This is the first release after having worked on this for several years on and off. As the title suggests, this is a fork of GKrellWeather 2.0.8 that got started after not seeing any activity for several years and smaller bugreports and patches accumulating in various Linux distribution packages.

Initially the fork started out as a way to get GKrellWeather working on Windows, i.e. without the need for Perl. That resulted in a METAR parser written in plain C, downloading data via GLib/GVFS and a rewritten configuration UI which was actually shown in an old post about Embedding GtkBuilder files in GTK+ 2.x.

Release Notes:

• Replace external GrabWeather script with GIO/GVFS-based fetching and a METAR data parser built-into the plugin
• Clean up preferences page layout and make links clickable
• Add more weather details to tooltip
• Change to Meson build system

The source code can be found at the GKrellWeather 2.2.0 Release Page.

The plugin is also part of recent GkrellM for Windows packages.