HOW TO: Change KWeather's Icons

RavenLX · 05-18-2006, 09:10 PM

If you would like to change the icons displayed in KWeather:

Remove KWeather from your panel
Create a kweather-icons_default directory in your home directory or $HOME/tmp directory. In a terminal, change to that directory.
Do the following:
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cp /usr/share/apps/kweather/*png .
cd ..
tar -cvjf kweather-icons_default.tar.bz2 kweather-icons_default
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Now you can copy the archive to your backup disc. You may delete the kweather-icons_default if you wish or keep it as extra backup.
Change to root user (su and then enter password when prompted).
rm -rf /usr/share/apps/kweather/*png
Change to the directory where your new icons are.
cp *png /usr/share/apps/kweather/*png
Add the kweather applet to your panel. You should see the new icons.

kencaz · 05-18-2006, 09:26 PM

I use Kweather and love the Kicker-Applet.

I know it's not very configurable and I use the default icons, however, the one thing I would like to be able to change is the font size and style. I have not had any luck here and so far have not found anyone who has had any better luck with it.

The black text kindof limits the backgrounds I can use with a transparent kicker panel... but it's still a great little app...

KC

RavenLX · 05-19-2006, 12:53 AM

I hear ya. I think they would have to code that into the app, as the config files don't have any type of way to change that, unfortunately.

I just installed SuperKaramba and am using the Liquid Weather theme. Now THAT is what I call weather.

However, if someone needs something very small, then KWeather is the best I've seen so far.