[7261] in testers
Re: Evolution's RSS newsreader
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jean Foster)
Thu Jul 14 12:11:18 2005
From: Jean Foster <jfoster@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
Cc: testers@mit.edu
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Ah. That's bad news but thanks for letting me know.
This is something that Athena users should be warned about before the
update so that they can have time to transfer their RSS feeds listing to
some other app.
Do you think the list has been saved in some dot file in my directory?
I also just found that clicking on the URL link in your email did not
open the CNN page in firefox. It seems to have been ignored. This was
working in the previous release. I can't find where this is set in
evolution.
-jean-
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 15:47 -0400, Greg Hudson wrote:
> > 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).
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