Bug#443438: gnome-applets: Gnome stock ticker broken due to Yahoo-site change

Sven Arvidsson sa at whiz.se
Fri Sep 21 15:23:37 UTC 2007


Version: 2.18.0-4+b1

On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 11:48 +0200, Hartmut Wahl wrote:
> The gnome stock ticker is broken due to a Yahoo layout change. Unfortunately
> the site and the logic is hardcoded into the program, so the progam is
> useless now. I would suggest to add two things to the preferences:
> 
> 1. page where stock symbol can be obtained, e.g.
> http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=
> 
> 2. regexp to obtain stock price

I'm closing this for the version in unstable as it obviously works
there. The bug will still remain open for the stable version.

GNOME 2.14 was the last version to ship gtik, it was replaced by
invest-applet, so there's no easy fix to backport to fix this.

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
http://www.whiz.se
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