well I took a look at the code and the changelog, and found out for some questionable reasons, the behaviour was changed from displaying the numeric worth of all investments to a color-trend based on the worth change...
but looking at the code itself revealed, that the calculation seem rather broken: in the code below, the lines in the iterations should rather read like var = row[updater.VARIATION] now = row[updater.VALUE] start = now - var to make more sense imho... also the color-scale sensitivity might be a candidate for the preference dialog, as it might need considerable (relative) worth-changes to cause a noticeable color change, depending on the investments done... (from http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnome-applets/trunk/invest-applet/invest/widgets.py?view=markup) class InvestTrend(gtk.Image): ... def on_quotes_update(self, updater): start_total = 0 now_total = 0 for row in updater: # Don't count the ticker only symbols in the color-trend if row[updater.TICKER_ONLY]: continue var = row[updater.VARIATION]/100 now = row[updater.VALUE] start = now / (1 + var) portfolio_number = sum([purchase["amount"] for purchase in invest.STOCKS[row[updater.SYMBOL]]]) start_total += start * portfolio_number now_total += now * portfolio_number day_var = (now_total - start_total) / start_total * 100 color = int(2*day_var) opacity = min(0xFF, int(abs(127.5*day_var))) if day_var < 0: color = COLORSCALE_NEGATIVE[min(len(COLORSCALE_NEGATIVE)-1, abs(color))] else: color = COLORSCALE_POSITIVE[min(len(COLORSCALE_POSITIVE)-1, abs(color))] self.set_color(color, opacity) -- Invest applet renders incorrectly https://launchpad.net/bugs/59060 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
