The new scrolling RSS applet seems to be a bit of a disaster IMHO

• I can only get 5 articles at most to show in the home page applet which is a horribly small number of items compared to the old version, and typically I can only see 3 articles if I add another applet below or above the RSS applet
• the manual scrolling is a bit of a pig - the applet seems to have a scrollbar but of course dragging the thumbtrack drags the whole applet! Perhaps paging through articles with the up/down arrows would be a better method than scrolling one item at a time as the latter is quite tedious
• the auto-scrolling is a CPU hog
• there's a lot of wasted space around the refresh/up/down buttons

On the plus side, the main RSS applet has been improved and at least two major bugs are fixed:

• page dragging is now a lot more reliable (bug #1091)
• unread but still valid RSS articles are no longer auto-deleted with each automatic refresh (bug #953)

What Nokia gives with the one hand, it takes with the other!