netbook newspaper then what?

[Roderick B. Greening]

It would be nice if the weather applet could auto configure a default based on 
the TZ you enter on install. Yeah...  :)

Maybe Rich (nixternal) may have an idea on how to accomplish that.
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> I am not seeing the scroll option on my mini Dell.  Found how to configure
> the weather applet and have it working.  still nothing happens on the feed
> section.  Seems to be a bit confusing as how to get this to work.  Maybe if
> the weather applet could be configured to a default location so someone
> would understand what is happening
>
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 2:19 AM, Roderick B. Greening <
>
> roderick.greening at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The news feed should auto fetch some KDE RSS news feeds. Works here just
> > fine,
> > if you are connected and not behind some proxy/firewall which is
> > preventing the
> > RSS from being fetched.
> >
> > The one on the right is for weather. YOu should see a "configure" button
> > to enter your city/state and where to fetch the weather stats from.
> >
> > Further to the right of this, you should see a scroll bar. This allows
> > you to
> > scrool down the screen and bring the calendar fully into view, along with
> > a comic strip applet (also with a configure button).
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Rod.
> > _______________________________________
> > Roderick B. Greening, B.Sc.
> > Paradise, NL Canada
> > E-mail/MSN: roderick.greening at gmail.com
> > LP:
> > launchpad.net/~roderick-greening<http://launchpad.net/%7Eroderick-greenin
> >g> Wiki: wiki.ubuntu.com/rgreening
> > Blog: roderick-greening.blogspot.com
> > Twitter: twitter.com/rgreening
> > Identica: identi.ca/rgreening
> >
> > > Ok got my netbook finally working running Kubuntu Netbook edition.  The
> > > "Newspaper" launchers and then what?  I have a calander at the very
> >
> > bottom
> >
> > > of my screen where all I can see are the month and the days of the
> > > week.
> >
> >  I
> >
> > > have a blank window that tries to fetch some feeds but never returns
> > > anything (yes I'm connected to the internet), the sticky-notes plasmoid
> >
> > and
> >
> > > another large blank plasmoid.
> > >
> > > Can someone shed some light on where i should start?
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