Which of the two view modes (scrolling view and paging view) are you using?

Scrolling view right now.

By the way, how do I make it like I see in the KDE4 screenshots? Like a big
box with a list of links, rather than one scrolling at a time?

On 22 Jan 2008 10:34:46 -0000, Frerich Raabe <raabe@kde.org> wrote:

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Scrolling view right now.<br><br>By the way, how do I make it like I see in the KDE4 screenshots? Like a big box with a list of links, rather than one scrolling at a time?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 22 Jan 2008 10:34:46 -0000, Frerich Raabe &lt;
<a href="mailto:raabe@kde.org">raabe@kde.org</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
<br>You reported the bug, or are watching the reporter.<br><br><a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155711" target="_blank">http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155711</a><br><br><br><br><br></div>------- Additional Comments From raabe kde org &nbsp;2008-01-22 11:34 -------
<br>Which of the two view modes (scrolling view and paging view) are you using?<br></blockquote></div><br>

For changing the scrolling mode, go to the preferences dialog (right-click onto the news ticker) and change the value of the 'Scrolling mode' combo box. There's a bug in there though which causes the GUI not to be updated correctly sometimes, so try changing the combo box value back and forth to make sure that you have the right mode selected.

Regarding the crash: you can run the news ticker (or any other plasmoid for that matter) in its own window (and its own process) using the 'plasmoidviewer' program. Try running 'plasmoidviewer clock' or 'plasmoidviewer knewsticker' to run the clock (or the news ticker) in its own window. That way you can avoid that your whole desktop crashes just because a single plasmoid has a problem.

Do you have any additional news sources configured for your news ticker, or just the default KDE news? I'll see whether I can reproduce this problem this evening.

I added Osnews.com to it, but that was after it started crashing for me. In
my experience it will crash with the default source only.

To reproduce it I think all you'd have to do is add it to your desktop, then
leave the room for a few hours. By the time you come back it might have
crashed.

The look of the news ticker I'm referring to is in this screenshot:
http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.0/screenshots/dashboard.jpg
I like that style alot better but I can't figure out how to make the news
ticker look like that. :(

On 22 Jan 2008 14:33:45 -0000, Frerich Raabe <raabe@kde.org> wrote:

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I added <a href="http://Osnews.com">Osnews.com</a> to it, but that was after it started crashing for me. In my experience it will crash with the default source only.<br><br>To reproduce it I think all you&#39;d have to do is add it to your desktop, then leave the room for a few hours. By the time you come back it might have crashed.
<br><br>The look of the news ticker I&#39;m referring to is in this screenshot:<br><a href="http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.0/screenshots/dashboard.jpg">http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.0/screenshots/dashboard.jpg</a>
<br>I like that style alot better but I can&#39;t figure out how to make the news ticker look like that. :(<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 22 Jan 2008 14:33:45 -0000, Frerich Raabe &lt;<a href="mailto:raabe@kde.org">raabe@kde.org
</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">------- You are receiving this mail because: -------<br>You reported the bug, or are watching the reporter.
<br><br><a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155711" target="_blank">http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155711</a><br><br><br><br><br>------- Additional Comments From raabe kde org &nbsp;2008-01-22 15:33 -------<br>For changing the scrolling mode, go to the preferences dialog (right-click onto the news ticker) and change the value of the &#39;Scrolling mode&#39; combo box. There&#39;s a bug in there though which causes the GUI not to be updated correctly sometimes, so try changing the combo box value back and forth to make sure that you have the right mode selected.
<br><br>Regarding the crash: you can run the news ticker (or any other plasmoid for that matter) in its own window (and its own process) using the &#39;plasmoidviewer&#39; program. Try running &#39;plasmoidviewer clock&#39; or &#39;plasmoidviewer knewsticker&#39; to run the clock (or the news ticker) in its own window. That way you can avoid that your whole desktop crashes just because a single plasmoid has a problem.
<br><br>Do you have any additional news sources configured for your news ticker, or just the default KDE news? I&#39;ll see whether I can reproduce this problem this evening.<br></blockquote></div><br>

What you see on that screenshot (in the upper right corner) isn't the news ticker. That's some other plasmoid (I think it's called "news" or something like that).

Is that available in the default release? I don't have it, and I did install
every package tagged as "4.0.0".

On 22 Jan 2008 15:48:12 -0000, Frerich Raabe <raabe@kde.org> wrote:

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Is that available in the default release? I don&#39;t have it, and I did install every package tagged as &quot;4.0.0&quot;.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 22 Jan 2008 15:48:12 -0000, Frerich Raabe &lt;<a href="mailto:raabe@kde.org">
raabe@kde.org</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">------- You are receiving this mail because: -------<br>You reported the bug, or are watching the reporter.
<br><br><a href="http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155711" target="_blank">http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155711</a><br><br><br><br><br>------- Additional Comments From raabe kde org &nbsp;2008-01-22 16:48 -------<br>What you see on that screenshot (in the upper right corner) isn&#39;t the news ticker. That&#39;s some other plasmoid (I think it&#39;s called &quot;news&quot; or something like that).
<br></blockquote></div><br>

I have this bug with knewsticker, too. Plasma suddenly crashes. I tried to commit it as plasma bug here: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156207, but it appeared to be knewsticker problem. I've got crash report, I hope it helps.

Created attachment 23579 [details]
Crash report

Is this with KDE 4.0.1? I fixed a bug in KNewsTicker's "Paging" view (which you're using apparently) for KDE 4.0.1, and the back trace you're posting looks pretty similar to the one I fixed.

Yes, I use KDE 4.0.1 with "Paging" view, that's true. I previously used KDE 4.0.0, but I removed it with 'make uninstall' with every package before compiling 4.0.1. Could it be the problem in settings in ~/.kde? I didn't changed it since KDE 4.0.0. I will delete settings to test it and write a result here.

Well, removing ~/.kde/share/config/knewstickerrc made no effect. It's still crashing plasma...

As of KDE 4.0.3 this still happens to me. 

In an unrelated note, I see alot of people with an RSS news reader, that doesn't scroll, but is intead a rectangle box with the news items as a list. Is there any way to get this in KDE4.0.3 or make it available in whatever the next KDE4 release is?

Can you still reproduce this bug with a recent KDE (4.1.3 / 4.2beta2 / 4.2svn) ? Thanks :)

No, I cannot reproduce this bug as of right now.

Closing as WORKSFORME.Please re-open the bug report if you experience the same crash again. Thanks