Configuring KNewsTicker
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Chapter 3. Configuring KNewsTicker

You can access KNewsTicker's configuration dialog by right-clicking onto the scroll text, or by clicking on the button with the arrow on it and choosing the entry labelled Preferences in the menu.

General Options


This is what the General tab of the
			preferences dialog looks like.

Here you can define how fast the text should be scrolled around, what it should look like as well as other options for the applet. Here is a brief info on what each of the switches and buttons on this tab does:

Mousewheel sensitivity:

This slider allows you to define how fast/slow the text should be scrolled when using the mousewheel.

News query interval

Here you can define in what intervals KNewsTicker queries the configured news sources for new headlines. This depends generally on how fast you'd like to hear about news and how much load you want to put on the network:

  • A lower value (lower than 15 minutes) enables you to be notified about news very quickly if you want or need to. Please note, that it increases the network traffic significantly, though. Therefore, such low values shouldn't be used if you query popular news sites (such as Slashdot or Freshmeat) as they have generally already enough work with processing the incoming queries.

  • A higher value (higher than 45 minutes) won't make you hear about news that quick. For non-time-critical applications, it should be suitable, though. The positive aspect of longer intervals is that only very little load is put on the network; this saves resources and nerves, for you and the system administrators of the news sites you query.

Tip

The default value (30 minutes) should be appropriate and reasonable in most cases.

Use custom names for news sites

Check this box to make the news ticker use the names you specified in the list of news sources (available on the tab labeled News sources) instead of the ones the news sites themselves report. This can be handy for news sites which report a very long or useless name.

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