linux weather ticker?

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Fritz Whittington wrote:

> On or about 2005-01-14 08:16, Christopher A. Williams whipped out a 
> trusty #2 pencil and scribbled:
>
>> On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 02:10 -0600, Gustavo Seabra wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Globe Trotter wrote:
>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>>> Thanks! I did find that and it works. Though a bit disappointing 
>>>> that it does
>>>> not allow me to display windchill (as opposed to the what I 
>>>> consider useless
>>>> dewpoint).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>
>>> If you are using KDE, KWeather applet does display the wind chill. 
>>> There should also be a way to make LiquidWeather display it, but I 
>>> don't know how.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> ..And if you're using GNOME, there's the Weather Report applet that's
>> part of the panel. It uses Weather Channel data based on most (all??) of
>> their reporting stations. For temperatures, it includes a "Feels Like"
>> measurement, which I think is a combination of wind chill and heat
>> index. As a private pilot, this doesn't replace a complete weather
>> briefing for me by any stretch, but since the reporting stations include
>> most of the airports I routinely fly to and from and it has 2-click
>> access to a local radar map, it's a nice "quick look" applet.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Chris
>>  
>>
> Does anybody know the incantation to get the Gnome Weather Report to 
> run under KDE?  It seems a lot of the Gnome stuff will run under KDE 
> and vice versa, if you just know how to get them up.
>
KDE has a nice little weather thing you can add to the panel (right 
click to get started). i used for a while last night - for some reason i 
had the urge to use KDE for a while. i do like the Gnome Weather applet 
when i'm in Gnome (most of the time) though.
jb