[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#456415: newsticker-plugin

mmassonnet at gmail.com mmassonnet at gmail.com
Sun Dec 16 11:18:30 UTC 2007


On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 09:52:12AM +0100, Matthias Krüger wrote:
> mmassonnet at gmail.com wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 01:29:40PM +0100, Matthias Krüger wrote:
> >> In my opinion it would be great, if there would be a newsticker (plugin)
> >> for the xfce(4)-panel.
> > 
> > Upstream has a RSS panel plugin written in Python[0].  Otherwise you can
> > use Liferea[1] which is a full featured RSS read and fits inside the
> > systray when hidden; another option is yarss[2] which only lives in the
> > systray.
> > 
> > [0] http://svn.xfce.org/svn/goodies/xfce4-rss-plugin/trunk/
> > [1] http://packages.debian.org/testing/liferea
> > [2] http://packages.debian.org/testing/yarssr
> 
> Thank you! The thing I had in mind was a line in the panel, something
> like the knewsticker just for the xfce-panel instead for the kicker (the
> kde panel) but liferea is nice, too.
> Do you know whether the xfce4-rss-plugin will be available in the next
> xfce-version for debian?

I think there never was a release of the xfce rss panel plugin.  So
don't hope much about getting it soon.  I think the dev was just having
fun as usual panel plugins are, and the plugin itself still needs some
more tweaking.

> Thank you for your nice work! 	 Matthias Krüger

mike





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