teaser for my little winter project.

[ebassi@mastodon.social]

@hbons @ross even if you drew it directly with Cairo, you’d have to hard code the colors because you can’t query the style machinery. There are some changes coming to GTK with regards to SVG rendering, but mostly for icons; there’s no CSS integration there, as of yet

[forteller@tutoteket.no]

@hbons I'm thinking it would be really neat if you where able to give those charts some sort of color fade, so that they look like auroras… !?

[hbons@mastodon.social]

@forteller yes! that's the plan. thanks for the inspiration.

[forteller@tutoteket.no]

@hbons Awesome!

[hbons@mastodon.social]

TIL about GtkLevelBar.

GtkProgressBar's lost brother from an other mother.

just set the min/max and a value. convenient!

#linux #opensource #gnome #gtk #libadwaita #design #aurora

[hbons@mastodon.social]

#libadwaita has a handy .accent CSS class for labels.

using that (+bold) to highlight when measurements are good or heading in the right direction.

#linux #opensource #gnome #gtk #libadwaita #design #aurora

[skatterbean@mastodon.social]

@hbons when I was building my TUI hamclock this infuriated me to no end. Most every site in US gov has somewhat decently documented API for their services. NOAA? Nah.

I feel like I should be grateful there's even the .json files since so much of it is probably still teletype driven.

[hbons@mastodon.social]

@skatterbean the story of technical engineering.

designing the sensors, putting them on a satellite on top of a rocket and launching it into space in a stable position between the Earth and Sun, beaming the data back: no problemo.

formatting and documenting the data for human consumption. nah that’s too hard.

[hbons@mastodon.social]

adding a main summary card for those not yet familiar interpreting the numbers.

I wonder if I can turn this into a widget that goes next to the weather in the shell?

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

[hbons@mastodon.social]

just hardcoding European cities for now as I don't have location support yet for the first release.

sorry non-Europeans, your day will come.

[hbons@mastodon.social]

it needs an icon of some kind for balance... too much text.

[lynx@ohai.social]

@hbons This makes me wonder if anyone has done something similar for Home Assistant... I'll have to go digging later.

[hbons@mastodon.social]

@Lynx yes! someone in this thread replied with a link.

[garrett@mastodon.xyz]

@hbons Is there a way to show some kind of a simple graph? Like, perhaps percentages over the next couple hours? Or some kind of indicator of how likely things are now?

(General weather apps might probably be good inspirations.)

[blackwolf12333@hachyderm.io]

@hbons can we already get this somewhere? I'd love to try it out

[hbons@mastodon.social]

@blackwolf12333 needs another week or 2. then I’ll have some flatpak CI builds for testing.

[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.