@jlb it’s because i’m running ubuntu budgie-desktop 25.04 on my workspace (native).
Now, i fixed (yeahhhh!) with help of the VM the settings issues - now the plugin is working fine 
Here you go:
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As for searching for locations, yes, that’s fine. 
I’m pretty bad at this. Could you explain what kind of link I need to enter in the “feed” section?
There should also be a “Remove” button to delete locations and feeds that we no longer want.
Would you prefer me to report problems on the forum or on GH? I saw that David gave you some work to do.
You have to put “RSS Feed” URLs to the form field in the settings page. The Plugin supports both atom feeds and rss-2.0
As example, you can have a look at n-tv.de - Startseite - this URL gives you rss in xml format
Both raspi and normal builds for 24.04 / 25.04 / 25.10 are building in our backports
sudo apt install budgie-discovery-applet
packaging for the applet is here GitHub - UbuntuBudgie/budgie-discovery: debian packaging only
I’ll have a look later at building for wayland
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Time for a new DEV release
Great work, Andreas! 
Thanks for the trash button for feeds!
But sorry, feeds still don’t work for me.
The window is clearer and displays better than in previous versions.
But it’s probably not wide enough on the right:
Suggestion: an application search box?
Thx for your fast feedback 
Can you give me a shell output please - in hope, to find some crash messages ?
1.) Open a terminal and type `budgie-panel --replace &`
2.) add a feed url in settings
3.) copy shell output and post on “pastebin”
Thank you
Are you sure that’s the right command line, @Andreas?
It made me lose the panel!
CTRL+ALT+T to open a terminal
nohup budgie-panel --replace &
Thanks a lot, David!
I restored the panel and was able to add the applets I use and arrange them as I wished.
But this morning, when I tried to add an additional applet, I noticed that the “Applets” tab and the “+” button had disappeared from the panel settings:
I’m sorry to say that the culprit is indeed “discovery-desktop,” as I suspected: I removed it from the panel using “dconf-editor,” and the tab and button reappeared. 
I am running UB 24.04.3.
I do nothing in gnome settings, the settings from discovery applet in one file ~/.config/discovery-applet/settings.json - so the issue with panel settings can’t be an issue from this app.
Sounds like more as a bug in gtk/glib on Ubuntu 24.04
I don’t know anything about it, I trust you.
should be fixed in this small bugfix release
Oops, I didn’t realize that updates also install their versions from now on — there may have been a conflict that explains my problem:
as discovery-applet
budgie-discovery-applet 1.0.7-dev-0ubuntu1~ppanoble [backports/noble main]
└── Add news, weather, and applications to the Budgie panel
discovery-applet 1.0.10-dev [local]
├── is installed
└── Start menu for Budgie Desktop
Unfortunately, nothing new on the RSS feed front — I’m using the link you sent me.
How are the feeds displayed? With a browser?
Suggestion: make the links to “RSS Feeds” and “Weather” more colorful so that they stand out better with a light theme.
Try this python snippet to print out the actual rss feed you should be using
I.e.
python3 filename.py
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the tabs/Gtk.Notebook (both used in settings and RSS feeds) aren’t colored / styled anymore - it’s on your own to use a global theme
It’s great to know how to code. This way, BeautifulSoup! 
That’s the link Andreas gave me:
python3 rss.py
Enter website URL: https://www.n-tv.de/
🔍 Checking https://www.n-tv.de/
✅ Confirmed RSS 2.0 feed: https://www.n-tv.de/rss
By the way, David, have you tried Andreas’ applet? Do rss feeds work for you?
I use Orchis, which I installed myself…