MultiTicker Applet
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This software is released under the GNU GPL

An applet that pulls down news items from sites in RDF/RSS format,
parses then displays them in a scrolling ticker.

* Multiple sites are supported
* News items are links to web pages launching your GNOME web browser
* Colours can be associated with different sites
* Several tickers can be displayed at once
* Web proxy is supported

All you need to do is create a ~/.multiticker/index file, here is an example

PROXY http://host:port
TICKERS 2
SOURCE slashdot http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rdf 1800 1 #007f00
SOURCE freshmeat http://freshmeat.net/backend/fm.rdf 1800 2 #00007f
SOURCE lwn http://lwn.net/headlines/rss 1800 2 #7f0000

If you don't use a proxy comment out the PROXY line, comments start with #
There are two tickers, slashdot on the first ticker, freshmeat and lwn on the
second ticker. The SOURCE line is written as

SOURCE <local_filename> <URL_of_rdf_file> <time_between_downloads_in_seconds> <ticker_to_use> <colour_used_for_this_site>

TODO
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Extend the code to support more than two tickers
Error checks when downloading
Error checks when parsing XML
XPM's for separator dots
Pull down images specified in RDF files
pixbuf support to shrink down images
tooltip like popup for descriptions for each item

Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Paul Coates

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

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along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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