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Re: Statistics will be uploaded in about an hour.
by Darryl Wheatley on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @02:52
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Another great digest Danny. For me the articles with the screenshots are the most interesting anyway. I enjoyed reading about KOrganizer, WorldClock and KSysguard. With the worldclock plasmoid, will it also be possible to combine it with the panel clock and calendar view to match the feature in the latest release of GNOME? I must say that this worldclock already looks more detailed and prettier than theirs :) (thanks marble!)
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Re: Statistics will be uploaded in about an hour.
by Inge Wallin on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @04:05
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And the clouds are actually the real clouds covering the world!
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Re: Statistics will be uploaded in about an hour.
by Anon on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @04:59
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Woah - seriously?
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Re: Statistics will be uploaded in about an hour.
by Robin on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @05:10
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yeah, afaik these are real clouds provides by nasa...
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Re: Statistics will be uploaded in about an hour.
by Anon on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @05:11
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NASA make clouds, now? ;)
Anyway - cool, that's a really neat feature :)
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Re: Statistics will be uploaded in about an hour.
by Torsten Rahn on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @06:11
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Yes, but they don't get updated yet (right now you need to delete them manually still. But we'll fix that before 4.1.
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Re: Statistics will be uploaded in about an hour.
by Torsten Rahn on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @06:17
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Just to get this straight: The data that is placed on the server gets updated all the time (we are basically using the same data that XPlanet does which has realtime clouds as well). However right now Marble only fetches it once. So if you want an updated cloudcover you need to delete the cloud data that marble has fetched by hand. We'll add some mechanism that does this automatically later, so you'll be able to have real time clouds that update automatically for KDE 4.1
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Re: Statistics will be uploaded in about an hour.
by random kde user. on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @10:15
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Are the dark and lit regions also displayed correctly wrt. the seasons? In the screenshot it looks like both the north and south pole are lit at the same time...
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Re: Statistics will be uploaded in about an hour.
by Inge Wallin on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @11:57
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Basically: yes. But the light zones are a little bigger than the dark zones of the earth due to light dispersion in the atmosphere.
Remember that exactly now is the mid point between winter and summer all over the world. So it's dawn at the north pole and dusk at the south pole.
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Re: Statistics will be uploaded in about an hour.
by Torsten Rahn on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @11:58
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Yes, they are displayed correctly wrt the seasons.
The rather "boring" situation that you see on the plasmoid screenshot is due to the fact that we just had the equinox where spring started. At that time both poles are somewhat lit by the sun at the same time. But yes, it looks a bit as if both poles are lit a bit too much at the same time. I've just checked it back and it seems to be due to the shading in the textures.
For a different point of time that might appeal more to you you might want to have a look at the first screenshots here:
http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3275
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Re: Statistics will be uploaded in about an hour.
by Joergen Ramskov on Tuesday 01/Apr/2008, @01:18
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Neat, though I'm not sure it makes the clock more usable.
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Re: Statistics will be uploaded in about an hour.
by Fran on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @04:49
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Good work Danny!!!
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