Weather Wallpaper

Added Satellite imagery background, from NOAA's GOES satellites — public domain, keyless. A close crop for the continental US; a whole-Earth view from the nearest satellite elsewhere, where one is usably in view; a plain "not available here" for the real gap in coverage, roughly the Middle East through Southeast Asia, where neither satellite has a usable view. Real moon phase. The night scene used to draw a fixed crescent regardless of the date. It now shows the actual current phase — new, crescent, quarter, gibbous, full — computed from the date with no network call, and correctly mirrored for the Southern Hemisphere, where a waxing moon is lit on the opposite side from what Northern Hemisphere viewers see. Reduce screen burn-in — a subtle, slow pixel-shift applied to the panel, on by default, to spread wear on OLED and plasma displays. Imperceptible on anything else. Settings reorganized into 8 categories — Location, Appearance, Weather info, Clock, Screen & layout, Experimental, Demo mode, Housekeeping — replacing one long scrolling list. Fixed Weather for a location far from the device's own time zone could show the wrong day/night phase, wrong-timed advice, or the wrong "yesterday" comparison. All three had been using the device's clock instead of the displayed location's, which only matters when they differ — most visibly for New Zealand viewed from a US-based device. Fixed using the location's own UTC offset. The radar map's credit line was wrong. It named OpenStreetMap regardless of settings, even though the map has been drawn from bundled Natural Earth data for a long time. Now credits correctly. Three separate settings had ended up silently duplicated during earlier development — a checkbox appearing twice in the list, a duplicated string resource, and a duplicated internal property — all traced back to the same root cause and all now a single, correct copy each. A community pack description still claimed animated (Lottie) packs kept the weather readout, a claim already corrected in the contributor documentation once the Lottie limitation was found, but never fixed in the app itself. Removed The Lottie self-test diagnostic tool. It existed to answer one question — whether the launcher could load a Lottie animation from this plugin's URI at all — and it already gave a clear answer, so it was just clutter after that. Notes Satellite coverage depends on which of two US weather satellites can usably see a given location; there's a real gap with no free alternative. No settings were removed in the reorganization, only regrouped — anything you used before is still there, just under one of the 8 categories.

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