[7253] in testers
Re: Evolution's RSS newsreader
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Jul 13 15:47:56 2005
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:47:01 -0400
Message-Id: <200507131947.j6DJl1WD003950@egyptian-gods.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Jean Foster <jfoster@MIT.EDU>
CC: testers@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: <1121087694.13516.4.camel@arizona.mit.edu>
> After taking Athena the Athena 9.4 update, I find that evolution
> doesn't have the rss newsreader functionality anymore (or it's
> really well hidden). Has this been broken out into a separate app
> or is there some way I can get it back into evolution?
From what I can tell, the Evolution developers decided that RSS
reading was not within the proper scope of the application, and
removed it. The GNOME desktop does not seem to have introduced a
directly comparable tool. (There exists a GNOME RSS aggregator called
"liferea", but it's not part of the GNOME desktop and it's not in the
Athena release or, to my knowledge, installed in a locker.)
Since Athena's primary motivation in introducing Evolution was its
mail client functionality, we didn't particularly mourn the loss of
the RSS functionality, but I can see how it would be annoying to have
come to rely on it and have it disappear. Firefox has "livelinks"
which might serve (go to an RSS-enabled site like www.cnn.com and
click on the icon in the far lower-right corner to add a bookmark
which automatically contains an RSS feed). Thunderbird can also
allegedly display RSS feeds, but it's not part of the release and we
don't support it (it's installed in the thunderbird locker).
