Weather Desktop

Check the weather in a simple and easy-to-use manner. With no ads and a beautiful interface, it’s easier and faster than checking weather websites!

Weather Desktop provides access to multiple named locations, with previews of all available at the same time. It displays a summary of today’s weather, with detailed current conditions that are easily accessible, daily forecasts for the next five days, hourly forecasts for the next 24 hours, and severe alerts.

Features

• Runs on any system that supports the KDE libraries
• Multiple named locations
• Current weather conditions
• Daily forecasts for the next 7 days
• Hourly forecasts for the next 24 hours
• Severe weather alerts
• Background of app depicts current conditions

Screenshots

Acknowledgments

• Development by Michael Spencer (@iBeliever)
• Design by Michael Spencer (@iBeliever) and Christopher Spencer
• Powered by Forecast.io
• Nominatim Search Courtesy of MapQuest

Licensing

Weather Desktop is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Installation

Ubuntu

If you are using Ubuntu, you can buy the application from the Ubuntu Software Center for $2.99. It will help to support my work, plus you will get a prepackaged, automatically updated version of the application that also contains my API key precompiled into it.

Building from Source

For information on how to build Weather Desktop from source, see the README in the downloaded source code or in the GitHub project.