2 <head>Jalview Desktop RSS News Reader
6 <strong>The Jalview Desktop RSS News Reader</strong><br /> The
7 Jalview Desktop includes a built in news reader for the <a
8 href="http://www.jalview.org/feeds/desktop/rss">Jalview Desktop
12 <p>We will use the desktop news channel to keep you informed of
13 important updates relevant to users of the Jalview desktop, such as
14 web service outages and user community events.</p>
15 <p>The news reader will be launched automatically when you start
16 the Desktop if new items are available. Should you want to browse
17 older items, however, you can open it manually from the 'Jalview news
18 reader' option in the Desktop's 'Tools' menu.</p>
19 <img src="jalviewrssreader.gif" align="center" width="513" height="337"
20 alt="Snapshot of the Jalview Desktop's RSS reader" />
22 The <em>Jalview news reader</em> was introduced in <a
23 href="http://www.jalview.org/releaseHistory.html#Jalview2.7">Jalview
24 version 2.7</a>. Its implementation is based on <a
25 href="http://jswingreader.sourceforge.net/">JSwingReader</a>.