RE: [newbie] news ticker
Title: Message Mate, I've seen heaps of different "news tickers" for either Gnome/Gnome2, KDE or even gKrellm - and some that just nicely sit off in a little window somewhere on your desktop...last one I used was with KDE3 - worked like a champ...(If you read the news, you know!) - or you could get creative and build a small html thatretrieves the data from news sites and useQTDesigner to make a dockable window for it... Stephen -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Bill WinegardenSent: Thursday, 7 November 2002 4:57 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] news ticker Hi All, How's this for a 180. I'm so used to using linux at home that I want it's flexibility and useability in windows, at work. My question, is there a similar product to the news ticker(that I use in LM9)for windows? I find it one of the most useful apps for the taskbar. It gives 'at a glance' information on stories that interest me. No flames please, I am fighting the fight here at work to get some acceptance for linux and open source. Till I'm successful, I'm forced to use this OS. TIA, Bill W. "education was never meant to be efficient. It was meant to be difficult, interesting, pleasurable, errant, prodigal in every respect, transgressive, personal, lengthy, demanding and hospitable - but not efficient" - St. Augustine
Re: [newbie] news ticker
On Wednesday 06 November 2002 12:26 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Mate, I've seen heaps of different news tickers for either Gnome/Gnome2, KDE or even gKrellm - and some that just nicely sit off in a little window somewhere on your desktop...last one I used was with KDE3 - worked like a champ...(If you read the news, you know!) - or you could get creative and build a small html that retrieves the data from news sites and use QTDesigner to make a dockable window for it... Stephen [responses interspersed] Hi Stephen; Wasn't the question the other direction? A Windows app that will work as well (yeah, right ;-) as the one he uses in Mandrake? C. Bill's message read thusly; Hi All, How's this for a 180. I'm so used to using linux at home that I want it's flexibility and useability in windows, at work. My question, is there a similar product to the news ticker (that I use in LM9) for windows? I find it one of the most useful apps for the taskbar. It gives 'at a glance' information on stories that interest me. No flames please, I am fighting the fight here at work to get some acceptance for linux and open source. Till I'm successful, I'm forced to use this OS. TIA, Bill W. Bill you might want to check check: http://www.google.com/ for dockable newsreaders: http://www.google.com/search?hl=enie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8q=dockable+newsreadersbtnG=Google+Search for example. There seems to be a lot of links for such a beast. For free-ware in windows I used to use (and still recommend to friends using that operating system): http://www.sover.net/~whoi/Index.html The search on the site sorta sucks though which is why I recommended Google. Look in the Internet section for news apps I believe. The site owner checks the listed software for spyware and apparently flags any that are. Used to anyway. Good luck. -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org There comes a time in the affairs of a man when he has to take the bull by the tail and face the situation. -- W.C. Fields Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] news ticker
Hi Stephen; Wasn't the question the other direction? A Windows app that will work as well (yeah, right ;-) as the one he uses in Mandrake? C. Newsticker in Windoze? Gads...sorry...if I'd have known that, I'd not have made a suggestion...(grin)...oh wait, but there IS a nifty utility called WinBar that I snagged from www.BetaNews.com quite a while back that has the ability to have a newsticker rather like Gnome or KDE...was nicely configurable as well...(when in Windoze, I run VMWare to run a real OS) 07 11th 2002 ____ / \ /| |'-. .\__/ || | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | / \__.`=._) (_ |/ ._/ || |'. `\ | | ;/ / | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| ' `-`' !! !s.m.kuhn! ! kuhn media australia - kma.0catch.com ! !! ! Graduate Of The Uncle Fester Keith ! ! Moon School of hair styling ! !! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] news ticker
On Wednesday 06 November 2002 02:19 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Hi Stephen; Wasn't the question the other direction? A Windows app that will work as well (yeah, right ;-) as the one he uses in Mandrake? C. Newsticker in Windoze? Gads...sorry...if I'd have known that, I'd not have made a suggestion...(grin)...oh wait, but there IS a nifty utility called WinBar that I snagged from www.BetaNews.com quite a while back that has the ability to have a newsticker rather like Gnome or KDE...was nicely configurable as well...(when in Windoze, I run VMWare to run a real OS) That's the one I was looking for to answer this same question from a friend. He's stuck sitting behind Windoze all day or night (Compaq Hell Desk) and I couldn't remember the name of it. Too long since I ran anything other than a real operating system I s'pose. Thanks Stephen. g -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Stenderup's Law: The sooner you fall behind, the more time you will have to catch up. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] news ticker
That's the one I was looking for to answer this same question from a friend. He's stuck sitting behind Windoze all day or night (Compaq Hell Desk) and I couldn't remember the name of it. Too long since I ran anything other than a real operating system I s'pose. Thanks Stephen. g Here's the URL for WinBar: http://www.winbar.nl/index.php Just so's to keep ya from having to surf too hard... 11 07 2002 ____ / \ /| |'-. .\__/ || | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | / \__.`=._) (_ |/ ._/ || |'. `\ | | ;/ / | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| ' `-`' !! !s.m.kuhn! ! kuhn media australia - kma.0catch.com ! !! !PC! Politically Correct (or) Pure ! ! Crap! ! !! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] news ticker
On Wednesday 06 November 2002 02:46 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Here's the URL for WinBar: http://www.winbar.nl/index.php Just so's to keep ya from having to surf too hard... Passed along to the interested party; thanks again. Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Don't look now, but the man in the moon is laughing at you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] News ticker sources
Nick Thompson asked: Does anybody know where I can find a list of news sources that work with kde2.1s news-ticker (rdf)? The Unix news is good but some world news would be interesting too. -- -michael-
