I'm using Plasma's newsreader applets "news" and "rssnow". Both worked fine, but at the moment, both don't fetch news and I just don't know why. When starting the applets via plasmoidviewer, I get:

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plasmoidviewer(11152) KServiceFactory::findServiceByDesktopPath: "findServiceByDesktopPath:  not found"
plasmoidviewer(11152) News::connectToEngine: "http://www.tagesschau.de/xml/atom/ "

and nothing else happens. What's wrong?!

Run this command:

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plasmaengineexplorer

Is "rss" present in the list of data engines?

No, it isn't …

If you are using distribution packages, please ensure they are up to date. If you are not running KDE 4.2, then please upgrade, since KDE 4.2 ships with the RSS dataengine.

I use the KDE 4.2.1 Gentoo ebuilds. Which package should contain the RSS data engine? Perhaps, this is a Gentoo related problem which should be filed in ther Bugzilla.

The RSS data engine is shipped alongside Plasma in KDE Workspace ( kdebase/workspace ). It is dependent upon KDE Core, KDE Plasma which come from KDE Libraries ( kdelibs ) and KDE Syndication libraries, which comes from KDE PIM Libraries. ( kdepimlibs )

Actually, the Gentoo guys introduced an "rss" use flag in kde-base/plasma-workspace which seems to be turned off by default. I re-compiled the package with USE="rss", and now the applets work again. Thanks for the help