(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

klhrevolutionist wrote:I checked into the bbc ticker and it works great!!!
It sits on top of my browser and does'nt get in the way or nothing!!!
I wonder why people say it's not complete?

I think on the website it says it only supports Netscape and, presumably by extension, Mozilla and Firefox. No work was ever done to make work with other browsers, such as Opera.

Plus, I don't think you can add other news feeds to it, something I'd like the option of doing.

How did you try it out klhrevolutionist, on what platform?

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&c ... W2YZ-fjI4K

From Website:

Newsline is available to download in 4 versions - for Windows 95/NT, for Windows 3.1 and now for Mac Power PCs and Mac 68K. Click on the button below that matches your operating system.

Am I missing something? It doesn't appear to be officially ported to Linux at this point, unless I have the completely wrong program.

Go to extra dotpups to download bbcticker.pup
You don't need any specific web browser to use it it is stand alone
like kticker

Walt H wrote: 1) Snownews - http://kiza.kcore.de/software/snownews/ Offers a binary package for download that supposedly has no additional dependencies. Source code is also available. Binary is 735K download, source is 158K. [console-based]

http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8925/ur0312d/ has an interesting review of snownews as well as what may be some helpful tips and tricks.

doc

I downloaded the BBC News ticker dotpup, and it seems to work fine. But there are a couple of tweaks I think would be useful if they are possible. The first and perhaps most possible would be to have the browser go to the text-only BBC News site (useful for those of us on dialup and more in keeping, I think, with the idea of a ticker) instead of the standard site, as it now does.

The other tweak, perhaps not possible, would be to figure out a way to either add to or change the default feed to allow other feeds. Seems to me this would be a nice expansion of the ticker's capabilities. Has anyone else looked at the code and noticed whether this would, in fact, be possible. I looked but couldn't really tell anything due to my lack of programming skills.

This is snownews, I have yet to make a dotpup of it.
This is for those who want something "simpler"
it works straight out of the box, no need to move anything anywhere unless
you know what your doing!
WHEN YOU DOWNLOAD THIS RENAME IT TO snownews.tgz
just extract and open rxvt and cd to directory
and type ./snownews

if people like this I will dotpup it unless somebody wants to make a roxapp!!
Now that I noticed I posted it in the wrong area this is an rss newsthingy!!!

klhrevolutionist wrote: if people like this I will dotpup it unless somebody wants to make a roxapp!!
Now that I noticed I posted it in the wrong area this is an rss newsthingy!!!

Have you looked at Liferea?

http://www.icewalkers.com/linux/Softwar ... ferea.html

doc

edoc wrote:Have you looked at Liferea?

http://www.icewalkers.com/linux/Softwar ... ferea.html

The possible problem is that Liferea bills itself as being designed for Gnome. At one time, I thought I saw that some of the Gnome libraries were required.

This is what is listed at http://www.gnomefiles.org :

Requirements
This application requires GTK+ version 2.4.x. Other dependencies include:
libxml2, mozilla or gtkhtml2, and gconf2. DBUS is optional.

Don't know if that clears anything up, though, as to whether it is a suitable or possible application for Puppy.

I downloaded Snownews and extracted it, but it doesn't run, at least not with the instructions as posted. What I had to do was cd into /snownews/usr/bin, then type
./snownews at the command prompt, then it works. It is a bit basic and doesn't give as much detail as I might have wanted when I select a headline, but it does work, and it doesn't require Java. For that, thanks!

EDIT: I take it back! By changing the default browser from lynx to Opera, I can get the full story if I want it. Great! Thanks again.

Walt H wrote: EDIT: I take it back! By changing the default browser from lynx to Opera, I can get the full story if I want it. Great! Thanks again.

What happens if you change the default browser to Mozilla?

doc

edoc wrote:What happens if you change the default browser to Mozilla?

In my case, it still opens in Opera. This happens even if Mozilla is open and Opera is closed. Changing the default browser to Dillo works, although opening a headline leads to a bunch of text flashing by on the command line while the browser is opening the story. Too bad. I kind of like the idea of using Dillo as a dedicated headline reader. I wonder if changing to the newer version available as a dotpup would make any difference.