Bug#443438: gnome-applets: Gnome stock ticker broken due to Yahoo-site change

[Hartmut Wahl]

Package: gnome-applets
Version: 2.14.3-4
Severity: normal


The gnome stock ticker is broken due to a Yahoo layout change. Unfortunately
the site and the logic is hardcoded into the program, so the progam is
useless now. I would suggest to add two things to the preferences:

1. page where stock symbol can be obtained, e.g.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=

2. regexp to obtain stock price

So in the future site changes can be easily overcome by the user.

Greetings
 Hartmut Wahl


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-686
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE.UTF-8)

Versions of packages gnome-applets depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.11            Debian configuration management sy
ii  gconf2                 2.16.1-1          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-applets-data     2.14.3-4          Various applets for GNOME 2 panel 
ii  gnome-icon-theme       2.14.2-2          GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  gnome-panel            2.14.3-5          launcher and docking facility for 
ii  gstreamer0.10-alsa     0.10.10-4         GStreamer plugin for ALSA
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins- 0.10.4-4          GStreamer plugins from the "good" 
ii  libapm1                3.2.2-8.1         Library for interacting with APM d
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.12.4-3          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0           2.14.0-3          Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0         2.14.0-5          The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                  2.3.6.ds1-13etch2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2              1.2.4-4           The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.0.2-1           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.71-3            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libfontconfig1         2.4.2-1.2         generic font configuration library
ii  libgconf2-4            2.16.1-1          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0            1:2.6.0-4         library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.12.4-2          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2     2.14.3-2          Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome2-0            2.16.0-2          The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0           2.14.1-2          The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0         1:2.14.2-7        GNOME virtual file-system (runtime
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-b 0.10.10-4         GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0     0.10.10-3         Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.8.20-7          The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libgtop2-7             2.14.4-3          gtop system monitoring library
ii  libgucharmap4          1:1.6.0-1         Unicode browser widget library (sh
ii  libhal1                0.5.8.1-9         Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libnotify1             0.4.3-1           sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  liborbit2              1:2.14.3-0.2      libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpanel-applet2-0     2.14.3-5          library for GNOME 2 panel applets
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.14.8-5          Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libwnck18              2.14.3-1          Window Navigator Construction Kit 
ii  libx11-6               2:1.0.3-7         X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor1            1.1.7-4           X cursor management library
ii  libxext6               1:1.0.1-2         X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxfixes3             1:4.0.1-5         X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii  libxi6                 1:1.0.1-4         X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1           1:1.0.1-4.1       X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxklavier10          2.2-5             X Keyboard Extension high-level AP
ii  libxml2                2.6.27.dfsg-1     GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2             2:1.1.0.2-5       X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1            1:0.9.1-3         X Rendering Extension client libra

Versions of packages gnome-applets recommends:
pn  deskbar-applet      <none>               (no description available)
ii  gnome-media         2.14.2-4             GNOME media utilities
pn  gnome-netstatus-app <none>               (no description available)
ii  gnome-system-monito 2.14.5-1             Process viewer and system resource
ii  imagemagick         7:6.2.4.5.dfsg1-0.14 Image manipulation programs

-- debconf information:
  gnome-applets/cpufreq_SUID_bit: false