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Typhoon

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Package: Addition Request Priority: Wishlist State: Conditionally Approved State: Needs Maintainer
Dominant language
Python
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Description

Please confirm there isn't an open request for this package
  • I have searched through package addition requests
Homepage

https://archisman-panigrahi.github.io/typhoon/

Maintainer
  • Would you like to be the maintainer for this package?
Why should this be included in the repository?

Typhoon is a weather app that silently runs in the desktop as a stylish, borderless, transparent, colorful widget. It has many features such as

  • Real-time weather updates and forecasts for up to four days
  • Customizable units of measurement
  • Displays current temperature as launcher count
  • Displays rain warning
  • Configurable widget opacity and color
  • Chameleonic background color based on wallpaper or accent color
  • Temperature-based background color
  • Supports customizable background color
  • Supports IP address-based location detection
  • Multiple locations supported via multiple windows
Are we allowed to redistribute it?

GPL-3.0

What kind of user will use this package, and how many users do you think will use this package?

Any desktop user who wants to quickly check the weather. The flatpak version has more than 2700 downloads

Link to source archive file

https://github.com/archisman-panigrahi/typhoon/releases

Contributor guide

No contributing guide indexed for this repository

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start with the Typhoon homepage and the linked GitHub release source archive, then compare existing package additions in the Solus packages repository. The work is done when Typhoon is packaged according to repository conventions and its GPL-3.0 source can be redistributed successfully.

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Assessment

Domain
build-system
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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