The new newsticker doesn't show my feeds

[Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>]

Hi all,

since the latest changes to newsticker I cannot read my feeds anymore.
My config (which worked fine with the old newsticker) is as follows:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(autoload 'w3m-region "w3m"
  "Render region in current buffer and replace with result." t)

(setq newsticker-url-list
      '(;; Emacs
        ("Planet Emacsen" "http://planet.emacsen.org/atom.xml")
        ;; Computer, Software & Linux
        ("Pro-Linux News" "http://www.pro-linux.de/backend/pro-linux.rdf")
        ("heise online News" "http://www.heise.de/newsticker/heise-atom.xml")
        ("NewsForge" "http://www.newsforge.com/index.rss")
        ("Slashdot" "http://slashdot.org/index.rss")
        ("The Daily WTF" "http://thedailywtf.com/rss.aspx")
        ;; FSF
        ("BadVista Blog" "http://badvista.fsf.org/blog/RSS")
        ("BadVista - VistaWatch" "http://del.icio.us/rss/badvista/badvista+vistawatch")
        ("DefectiveByDesign.org - The Campaign to Eliminate DRM"
         "http://www.defectivebydesign.org/rss.xml")
        ("Fellowship News" "http://www.fsfe.org/en/rss/feed/news_rss20")
        ;; Programming
        ("Common-Lisp.net" "http://common-lisp.net/rss.xml")
        ("Planet Lisp" "http://planet.lisp.org/rss20.xml")
        ;; Nachrichten
        ("tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD" "http://www.tagesschau.de/newsticker.rdf")
        ;; Uni
        ("Inforakel" "http://www.inforakel.de/RSSFeeds/CurrentNewsEvents")
        ("GHRKO News" "http://www.uni-koblenz.de/GHRKO/RSSFeed")
        ("Neuigkeiten des FB4" "http://www.uni-koblenz.de/FB4/News/RSSFeed")
        ;; Mail
        ("FastMail.FM status weblog" "http://status.fastmail.fm/?feed=rss2")
        ;; Blog
        ("Tassilo's Blog" "http://tsdh.wordpress.com/feed/")
        ("Comments for Tassilo's Blog" "http://tsdh.wordpress.com/comments/feed/"))
      newsticker-html-renderer 'w3m-region
      newsticker-cache-filename "~/.emacs.d/newsticker-cache"
      newsticker-automatically-mark-items-as-old nil)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Now, when I do `M-x newsticker-show-news' a new frame pops up [1]
showing three windows containing the buffers "*Newsticker Tree*",
"*Newsticker List*" and "*Newsticker Item*".  In the echo area I can see
that my feeds are fetched.

The first window (buffer "*Newsticker Tree*") contains the propertized
text

[X] Feeds
[X] Virtual Feeds

but no feeds.  Hitting RET on these [X] makes them [+], but still no
feeds are shown.  The "*Newsticker List*" buffer has a header line
containing Date and Title, but no contents.  The "*Newsticker Item*"
buffer is empty.

What am I missing?

Bye,
Tassilo
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[1] Can this be deactivated?  I'd like to use the current frame.