Configuration Of The News Sources

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# 3.2. Configuration Of The News Sources

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.

| 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:

- You can click on the button labbeled Add at the bottom.

- You can click with the right mouse button on the table and choose Add news source. This adds a new entry and sets the name to "Unknown".

- You can click with the right mouse button on any entry in the list and choose Add news source to add a new entry which has the same properties as the entry you clicked on.

- You can drag any RDF or RSS file from another application (such as Konqueror) onto the table. This adds a new entry to the list, sets the name to "Unknown" and sets the maximum number of articles to 10.

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:

- The topmost input field which is labelled Name: lets you edit the name of the news site. The name defined here will be used if the applet was unable to connect to the news site, or if the checkbox Use custom names for news sites (on the General tab) has been checked.

- The input field below lets you edit the URL which points to the RDF or RSS file to be used for the entry. You can change this string either by hand (e.g. by typing in the input field) or by clicking on the small button at the right of it (which has a folder icon on it). That button opens a convenient file-selection dialog which lets you browse to the desired file

- Finally, there's a place to define the number of articles KNewsTicker should download and keep from the news site. The default is 10 articles, but it might be reasonable to adjust this value for some news sites.

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

- click with the right mouse button on the entry you would like to delete and choose Remove news source from the popup menu.

- select the entry you intend to erase with the left mouse button and then click on the button and the bottom of the list labelled Remove.

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

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