As of a few days ago, the solution (including symbols ^DJI and INDU) has stopped working. It is a bit over a year since this happened last time, so I suspect Yahoo Finance once again has closed the feed. [not like the Dow Industrial Average isn't important]
Ubuntu needs to select a better stock ticker applet. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-applets in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/635310 Title: Gnome-Applets (Invest) - ^DJI symbol stopped showing Status in “gnome-applets” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Binary package hint: gnome-applets DELL LATITUDE D600 UBUNTU 9.10 +proposed GNOME 2.28.1 GNOME-APPLETS 2.28.0 INVEST 2.28.0 EXPECTED: Have been using stock symbols ^DJI, ^W1DOW, FXI, EWU - to pull Dow Jones Industrial Average, Dow Jones Global Index, iShares FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index and iShares MSCI United Kingdom Index since February 2010 from the Yahoo Finance servers without problems. ACTUAL: ^DJI shows under preferences, but no longer displays. Have tried: deleting/restoring ^DJI and/or all of the symbols; removing/restoring to panel; deleting ~/.gnome2/invest- applet/stocks.pickle ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 CheckboxSubmission: a4c8a5401b1e450828d3582bd9d33b9e CheckboxSystem: efd05939b08abfe86caa44c3820f8e56 Date: Fri Sep 10 14:44:32 2010 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5) Package: gnome-applets 2.28.0-0ubuntu2 ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-22.64-generic SourcePackage: gnome-applets Uname: Linux 2.6.31-22-generic i686 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-applets/+bug/635310/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
