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[Shane Fagan <shanepatrickfagan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 13:47 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> On 21/05/10 18:47, Frederik Nnaji wrote:
> > Hi Nicholas ;)
> >
> > On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 18:01, Nicholas Ipsen <NCLI@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >   
> >> I think it would be nice to include a weather indicator, maybe to the left
> >> of the Clock? I certainly appreciate this functionality in the current Gnome
> >> Clock Applet, but it would make sense to me to have them as seperate
> >> indicators.
> >>
> >>     
> 
> I'd pass on this one. Desktop widgets are better for ad hoc information
> presentation. We don't have a &great& desktop widget framework (Yahoo is
> closed, Google is clunky at the moment, the rest are too hokey)
> 
> Mark
> 
Well its not hard to write a clock. Mark could you not get some nice
clutter developer from the dx team to hack a quick one up? Id do it
myself but in not too great with clutter at the moment.

--fagan