News notification 0.2 review

News notification is a RSS News notification via a popup window. Modeled after Mail Notification

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Don Neumann

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News notification is a RSS News notification via a popup window.

Modeled after Mail Notification. RSS News your way!

Here are some key features of "News notification":
Drag and drop to add feeds (into the news icon on status bar)
Font setting
Site icons

NOTE: FG/BG Color setting has not been implented yet, but it's still in the prefs.

To add site icons, make sure news-notification is not running, otherwise your config will get overwritten.

1. Get the sites favicon.ico, http://www.website.com/favicon.ico or view the main page source and look in the header for "shortcut icon"
2. Load up favicon.ico on your favorite graphics editors, save it as a .png file
3. Copy the png file into $HOME/.news-notification
4. Edit $HOME/.news-notification/config
5. Under the proper feed channel add < icon >icon.png< /icon >

Requirements:
GTK+ version 2.4.x
gnet2
libxml
libgnomeui

What's New in This Release:
Removed gnome dependencies, all gtk now
Removed gnet and replaced with libcurl
Removed libxml and replaced with libxml2
Removed html link in news popups, this is temporary and removed due to no gnome dependencies
Will follow redirects for news links