teaser for my little winter project.

[scottishwildcat@mastodon.ie]

@garrett @hbons I quite like how Aurora Forecast on Android does it... a bit garish so could be refined a bit I'm sure, but easy to see at a glance how favourable the current conditions are.

[hbons@mastodon.social]

@scottishwildcat @garrett that's much better than the most installed iOS one!

[scottishwildcat@mastodon.ie]

@hbons @garrett It is! I only found it recently, so can't vouch for its accuracy yet…

[hbons@mastodon.social]

@scottishwildcat @garrett there’s only one source for the data. it’s literally a matter of presentation and interpretation.

[scottishwildcat@mastodon.ie]

@hbons @garrett True. Even so, I have 3 aurora apps on my phone that rarely agree with each other

[hbons@mastodon.social]

adding a small inline ️ icon and suddenly your eyes have a kind of anchor from which to explore the rest of the text.

sometimes decorations are good.

#linux #opensource #gnome #gtk #rust #design #aurora

[hbons@mastodon.social]

got some line graphs going using SVG and with the system accent colour.

still blurry and need to iterate on the style, but it's a start.

#linux #opensource #gnome #gtk #rust #design #aurora

[hbons@mastodon.social]

using the .warning CSS class to highlight upcoming high Kp values.

the threshold will be configurable in Preferences and/or based on your location.

#linux #opensource #gnome #gtk #rust #design #aurora

[hbons@mastodon.social]

settling on the layout. I think this will be it for the first release.

funky colours that match the wallpaper totally by accident...

also added a #fediverse hashtag graph. arguably the best indicator!

#linux #opensource #gnome #gtk #rust #design #aurora

[ross@hachyderm.io]

@hbons I wonder how easy that would be to port to macOS...

[hbons@mastodon.social]

@ross should probably just work. installing GTK on macOS to try is too intimidating for me.

[ross@hachyderm.io]

@hbons Well brew has a gtk4 cask so fingers crossed...

[hbons@mastodon.social]

@ross I did the backend on macOS, so that part definitely works. I'll let you try it once it's out.

[eljojo@ruby.social]

@hbons hey this looks so good!

[eljojo@ruby.social]

@hbons really smart adding the fediverse detection. -- back in the day I did something similar to detect earthquakes haha

[hbons@mastodon.social]

@eljojo yea I did a dry run during the last big solar storm, and posts go up a little bit in advance even.

all you need really. the other graphs are just there to make you feel smart.

[dohbuheee@mastodon.social]

@hbons curious, but why are all the line charts exactly the same? not rendering actual data yet?

[eljojo@ruby.social]

@hbons this would definitely be up there in a nasa control centre

[hbons@mastodon.social]

@dohbuheee yea, the backend is working, just need to hook it up properly.

[hbons@mastodon.social]

ok, light theme! ️

cards use the same colour as windows. so I'm slightly changing the base window colour to the one used in sidebars (like in Files).

GTK doesn't seem to have a .dark or .light CSS selector. so had to manually toggle a class and listen for the dark mode signal. no big deal.

#linux #opensource #gnome #gtk #rust #design #aurora