anyone got working "straw" packages for Hoary?

[Justin Mason]

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Steve Haines writes:
> On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 11:18 -0800, Justin Mason wrote:
> > I've recently switched from Debian sid to Ubuntu Hoary, and things
> > are mostly working nicely.   One thing I'm missing, however, is
> > straw, a very nice RSS reader application. (It's in universe,
> > but gives a "straw: Depends: python (< 2.4) but 2.4-0ubuntu4 is to be
> > installed" error on apt-get install.)
> 
> You might try YARSSR from Debian testing (Ubuntu Warty's version has a
> problem and won't reload the RSS feeds after a reboot.). I enjoy yarssr
> (yet another rss reader) although it's not as fancy as Newzcrawler in
> Windows. I couldn't get straw to run either.

Thanks for the tip -- it's interesting, but not the UI I'm looking for.
Straw has a few very good UI features:

- - it operates as a 3-pane mailer-style window, not yarssr's model of
  creating menus (I'm not too keen on that TBH ;)

- - its keyboard navigation is excellent, better than Thunderbird's
  RSS support; the space bar does almost all the work.  kbd nav
  is essential for something you use hourly, in my opinion.

- --j.
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