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Typhoon

by Archisman Panigrahi

Check the weather with style

Sandboxed Verified creator GPL-3.0-or-later v1.9.2
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About

Typhoon is a beautiful weather application that provides real-time weather updates and forecasts in a highly configurable and colorful widget inspired by the Metro interface in Windows 8.

Originally based on Stormcloud by Jono Cooper, Typhoon is powered by Open-Meteo, OpenStreetMap and ipapi.

Features:

  • Real-time weather updates and forecasts for up to four days
  • Customizable units of measurement
  • Displays current temperature as launcher count
  • Displays hourly weather forecast for 24 hours
  • Displays precipitation warning within app
  • Displays system notifications for rain, snow or thunderstorm
  • Configurable widget opacity and color
  • Chameleonic background color based on wallpaper or accent color
  • Temperature based background color
  • Supports customizable background color
  • Powered by Open-Meteo, OpenStreetMap and ipapi
  • Supports IP address-based location detection
  • Supports multiple locations

Permissions

Everything this app can reach outside its sandbox. Nothing here weakens it.

  • inter-process communication (needed for X11)
    --share=ipc
  • network
    --share=network
  • X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable
    --socket=fallback-x11
  • Wayland display
    --socket=wayland
  • GPU acceleration
    --device=dri
  • access to xdg-config/kdeglobals
    --filesystem=xdg-config/kdeglobals:ro
  • talks to com.canonical.AppMenu.Registrar
    --talk-name=com.canonical.AppMenu.Registrar
  • talks to org.kde.kconfig.notify
    --talk-name=org.kde.kconfig.notify
  • talks to org.kde.KGlobalSettings
    --talk-name=org.kde.KGlobalSettings
  • notifications
    --talk-name=org.freedesktop.Notifications

Who publishes this

The creator demonstrably controls this app id: Flathub verification, the hosting account owns the namespace, or a well-known file on their domain.

  • verified on Flathub: the developer proved they control this app id
    publisher:flathub

Maintenance

Recent activity on the upstream repository, or built and reviewed by Flathub.

No staleness signals: recent activity, or built and reviewed by Flathub.