RSS in Hoary

[John Richard Moser]

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Justin Mason wrote:
> 
> Lex Hider writes:
> 
>>>On Sat, 2005-01-01 at 17:38 -0500, John Richard Moser wrote:
>>>
>>>>I see that in Warty the current RSS solution is "Use Firefox Live
>>>>Bookmarks."  This is very skeletal and poor.  I suggest a light-weight
>>>>news agregator for Hoary.  Liferea is already in Universe, and should be
>>>>brought into Main.  It is very lightweight; the 0.5 package for core and
>>>>gtkhtml are 306kB, 1085kB unpacked.
>>>
>>>I agree that Liferea would be a good addition to hoary.
>>>To make this suggestion more official add it at:
>>>http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/SupportedSeedProposals/
> 
> 
> FWIW, Straw is available (and now working) in universe. in my opinion,
> Straw is more usable than Liferea:
> 

haven't tried it.

> - it includes extensive keyboard navigation options, and can generally be
>   used entirely via the keyboard; the spacebar navigates through unread
>   feeds in the normal newsreader style.  This is the main point where
>   Liferea lost out for me.
> 

Mmm, I understand that.

> - it uses a very liberal feed parser, and I haven't yet run into an
>   RSS/Atom feed it couldn't parse.
> 

Nor with liferea.

> - it looks good; normal 3-pane layout, and gtkhtml widget used for
>   display.  (I think that's got to be the baseline anyway.)
> 
Liferea can use GTKHTML or Mozilla. It'll have to be patched to use
Firefox for GRE; and this eats 20 megs more RAM.  Still, Gecko is a lot
more usable than GTKHTML.

> - pretty good integration with firefox -- adding a feed from FF is
>   simply a matter of dragging the RSS link into the Straw window
>   and dropping.  
> 

Haven't tried that.

> Having said all that, I'm not sure if Liferea still has the issues
> it had when I tried it last, as that was several months ago.
> 
> --j.

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