Using KDE 4.2 RC1 I am getting the same problem with RSSNOW as well... it just sits there saying "Fetching feeds" and there's no sign of these files:

/usr/lib/kde4/plasma_engine_rss.so
/usr/share/kde4/services/plasma-dataengine-rss.desktop

The LCD weather applet also crashes the whole of Plasma once I configure it!

Same here. When we are supposed to find fix in repos ???
Some of plasmoids are not ok as well. Internal sth sth (i got it translated) and lancelot modules.

I have entered this RSSNOW problem as a bug in Launchpad, just so the Kubuntu developers can track and resolve it.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/317780

It's worth entering bugs for other problems you're experiencing, either in the Kubuntu or KDE bug systems (depending on whether you have good reason to think the Kubuntu packagers made a mistake, e.g. by failing to include those two files, or whether it's a problem with KDE, e.g. the applet just crashes).

Today i updated Kubuntu and checked RSSNow. ANd... it is working. At last. Thanks for that work Kubuntu Team.

same here. Big up!

Yeah... I updated kubuntu today and RSSNow is woking.. thanks kubuntu team. =D

Since this issue now appears to be resolved, could the OP please click the "It's Solved" button to mark this thread as solved? Thanks in advance.

Gentoo Users

Set the 'RSS' USE flag on kde-base/plasma-workspace