Created attachment 20248 [details] [review]
patch using CSV file for fetching quotes from yahoo (against CVS HEAD/gnome-applets 2.4.0)

We also should consider that NASDAQ provides an xml feed for stocks at

http://quotes.nasdaq.com/quote.dll?page=xml&mode=stock&symbol=rhat

One problem I see is that you can't seem to get mutual fund data. Also
we need to think about legality issues with Yahoo and other places.

I had a look at the feed. It is a good source but I tried to fetch
indices and didn't succeed (ex. ^ixic returns invalid symbol).
I might have miss it, nevertheless it will implie a change in indices
naming (imcompatibility). 
About the license problem the fetched xml file contains a license (the
yahoo CSV file do not contains anything but the data).
I don't know a lot about these legal issues, but the license contains
explicit interdiction to copy, reproduce, transmit, display, perform,
distributes .... etc. Is it a problem ?

here is it:

Copyright 
The works of authorship contained in this world wide website in the
domain "www.NASDAQ.com" (the "NASDAQ Site"), 
including but not limited to all design, text and images, are owned,
except as otherwise expressly stated, by 
The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. or one of its affiliates, the National
Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., NASD Regulation, Inc., 
NASDAQ International Marketing Initiatives, or NASDAQ International,
and may not be copied, reproduced, 
transmitted, displayed, performed, distributed, rented, sublicensed,
altered, stored for subsequent use or 
otherwise used in whole or in part in any manner without the prior
written consent of 
The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc., except to the extent that such use
constitutes "fair use" under 
the Copyright Act of 1976 (17 U.S.C. 107), as amended, and except for
one temporary copy in a 
single computer's memory and one unaltered permanent copy to be used
by the viewer for personal and 
non-commercial use only, with an attached copy of this page containing
NASDAQ's Disclaimer, Copyright and Trademark Notices. 

Unless you have a NASDAQ Logo License or other written agreement in
effect with The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. 
which states otherwise, you may only provide a hypertext link to the
NASDAQ Site on another website, provided that 
(a) the link must be a text-only link clearly marked "NASDAQ Home
Page" or "NASDAQ.com", (b) the link must "point" to 
the URL "http://www.NASDAQ.com" and not to other pages within the
NASDAQ Site, (c) 
the appearance, position and other aspects of the link may not be such
as to damage or dilute the goodwill associated with 
NASDAQ's name and trademarks, (d) the appearance, position and other
aspects of the link may not create the false appearance 
that an entity is associated with or sponsored by NASDAQ, (e) the
link, when activated by a user, must display the NASDAQ Site 
full-screen and not within a "frame" on the linked website, and (f)
The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. reserves the right to revoke its consent 
to the link at any time in its sole discretion. 

There is another thing I think about nasdaq source.
With yahoo we can easily access international quotes
(I'am in France and lookup for Paris market) by suffixing
the symbol name with market initials (for ex. PA for Paris).
Will it be possible to have something similar with NASDAQ 
source.

I've applied this patch and it seems to work well.  gtik stopped
working a week or two ago (near the beginning of Feb 2004.)  This
patch fixed it.

Any plans to put it into CVS?  Without this or a similar patch gtik is
currently not working.

Appllied. Thanks Remi for doing this.

Welcome. A pleasure ;-)