RSS in Hoary

[John Richard Moser]

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Ah, I've used sage before as well.  Didn't really like it much though.
Key features it would be missing are the ability to run as a background
process during a user's session (i.e. in the tray), and to aggregate new
news to your screen briefly.

I guess it's enough for some people to just see what's in the feed; but
I like to keep an archive of all news that's ever passed me.

Another point against using FF or TB as a news reader, why read the
Slashdot, LWN, or CERT RSS when you can instead read Slashdot, LWN, or
CERT?  Possibly because the RSS aggregator you have is a lot more
lightweight than a browser that uses 50M when it starts up and
eventually creeps up to at least 90.  I don't want to use a really big
program when I read my news.

I'm more focused on what "looks proper" rather than what can be snuck in
with a poor looking hack.  Making a web browser or a mail client (I
think Thunderbird can read RSS too) do things it wasn't designed to do
isn't my idea of "proper," more like an ugly, ugly hack.

On the other hand, Thunderbird already has the proper UI layout for a
news reader.  A full featured TB plug-in could be made and be
non-hackish; however, there's still the issue that TB is very big.

89m  25m firefox-bin
68m  23m thunderbird-bin
29m 8784 liferea-bin

Liferea is running with my feedset here with tons of archived messages
(several thousand), gtkhtml rendering engine.  RESident, SHaRed shown.
With the mozilla rendering engine it's got 52M and 20M, respectively.

It loads almost immediately too; it takes 10-15 seconds for the other two.

Rory Gleeson wrote:
| This is not to take away from Liferea and, frankly, I'd support moving
it to
| Main.  But, Firefox also has the Sage RSS reader extension that users can
| easily install.  Sage is a very good reader.  And since Ubuntu already
has
| Firefox...
|
| Rory
|
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