Comment 9 for bug 109709

This is directed at Sebastien Bacher, hoping that this adds some more info. I'm not clear on what was needed for the bug report, but I'll try to be responsive if asked a direct question.

I can't comment on 7.10 Alpha 5, but with 7.04, the invest applet "doesn't work". I'm not sure to what degree it doesn't work, because it /is/ responsive for me, but not at all useful as I understand how to use it:

* I can add it to the top panel with right-click -> Add to Panel. Doing that places an the Invest purple and white graph icon on top panel, with an associated darker gray area to it's right.

* The only mouse action to which it seems to respond is a right-click on the darker gray area on the right. Doing that brings up a menu with Refresh, Preferences, About, and the three Move/Lock/Remove items.

* Refresh appears to do nothing.

* About brings up dialog box. Only thing of note here is that the link "Invest Website" points to http://raphael.slinckx.net/invest which gives a 404 error currently. Also, it's linked to the Preferences dialog such that if I open the About first, then Preferences, I have to close Preferences before I can interact with the About box again. Weird.

* The Preferences Dialog is responsive for me. Clicking the "Add" button adds a new symbol with GOOG as the default. I can click on the newly added GOOG text and it allows me to change the symbol. The problem is that the data for each symbol is a flat-zero. Just clicking around now . . . it appears that I can edit all the datum points. Hrm. Perhaps a help dialog explaining what's going on would be helpful. If I knew what was going on, I'd offer to write the text for you . . .

With my current guess as to what is supposed to happen and what the Invest applet is supposed to do, the problem seems to me to be that the applet is not collecting any data from the web.

Perhaps relevant info:

Ubuntu Feisty, Up-to-date

$ ps waux | grep invest
kevin 30389 0.0 3.8 77960 19960 ? S Sep14 0:05 python /usr/lib/gnome-applets/invest-applet --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:Invest_Applet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=33

$ ping www.google.com
PING www.l.google.com (64.233.161.103) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from od-in-f103.google.com (64.233.161.103): icmp_seq=1 ttl=240 time=45.1 ms

$ uname -a
Linux lina 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Fri Aug 31 00:55:27 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

Anything else I should add?

Kevin