Plasma 6 plasmoid that provides a scrolling RSS news ticker with advanced features.
- RSS Feed Support: Display headlines from multiple RSS feeds with intelligent parsing
- OPML Import/Export: Full support for OPML file format with robust error handling
- Smart Icon Loading: Automatically finds and displays feed icons with multiple fallback sources
- Panel Integration: Configurable panel spacer behavior for seamless desktop integration
- Mouse Wheel Navigation: Smooth scrolling with customizable sensitivity and edge spacing
- Internationalization: Support for some writing systems (Latin, Cyrillic, etc.)
- Universal Character Support: Handles all Unicode characters including special typographic marks
- Multi-Language Typography: Proper display of language-specific quotation marks and punctuation
- Automatic Script Detection: Identifies and validates different writing systems automatically
- Unicode Normalization: Handles encoding issues and normalizes text automatically
- Comprehensive Entity Decoding: Supports all HTML5 entities and numeric character references
- Configurable Appearance: Colors, fonts, scroll speed, and more
- Comprehensive Debugging: Detailed logging for troubleshooting any issues
Just change into the directory of the downloaded bundle and perform the following commands:
kpackagetool6 -t Plasma/Applet -u .
# If you wish to refresh the plasmoids...
plasmashell --replace- Add/remove individual RSS feeds
- Configure scroll speed and appearance
- Enable/disable feed icons
The operations of exporting and importing OPML files are not implemented due to QML and Plasma 6 restrictions.