News is a fully configurable RSS reader / ticker for Linux that displays RSS feeds as a ticker bar on you desktop. Open feed links in your favourite browser. Scrolling is really fast and ***smooth***.
Highly configurable: you can link News with your favourite browser, bookmark your favorite RSS feeds, set scrolling speed, update delay, fonts, font sizes and colors, dimension and location on the screen of the ticker, display the ticker inside a "draggable" window or without one, display or not a clock, and more.
News is written in C with GTK+2.0 and Libxml2. It runs fine on both Linux and Windows operating systems.
Requirements:
· gtk+
· libxml2
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Add option to disable warning/error popup windows.
· See also beta versions.
· Enable optional switch to single selection mode after N connection attempts failed.
· Add missing env->stream_fully_read flag which is set/checked in render_stream_to_surface() and shift2left_callback() and used in multiple selections mode.
· Stuff from auth/proxy structs (but passwords) is loaded/saved as params in config file and accessible from cli.
· "Translate" all html entities.
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