The K Desktop Environment

3.2. Configuration Of The News Sources

This is what the News sources tab of the
preferences dialog could look like, when with the Preferences in the context menu of KNewsTicker.

Besides the options available on the General tab, there are even more ways to customize KNewsTicker to fit your needs available on the News sources tab. This page mainly consists of a table which lets you manage and maintain the list of news sites KNewsTicker queries for news. Click on any entry with the right mouse button to open a context menu which lets you remove the current entry, or add a new entry with the properties of the selected entry.

At the bottom you can also find two buttons with an up arrow and another one with an arrow which points downwards. These two buttons allow you to move the entries in the list upwards and downwards, which is useful if you would like to define a specific order in which KNewsTicker loads the news sites.

Tip

If you have the applet started, you can play around with the settings now. Pressing Apply makes the applet use the new settings immediately, you don't have to restart it.

3.2.1. Adding A News Site

There are four ways to add a new news site to the list:

There's actually another, fifth way of adding a new news site to the list: you can click on any RDF or RSS file in the Konqueror filemanager to have it added to the list immediately.

3.2.2. Modifying An Existing News Site

To edit an existing entry in the list, you can use the input fields at the right, which are in the box labelled General. They're normally deactivated, as long as you didn't select any news site in the list. As soon as you select one, though, the input fields are enabled and you can edit the properties of the selected news site as you wish:

When you change the value/text in any of these input fields, you can see the change take effect immediately in the list.

3.2.3. Removing A News Site

Of course you want to remove a news source from the list somewhen. To do this, you can either

In both cases, a confirmation box will pop up and make sure you didn't select the wrong entry.