Task:RSS feed reader

Revision as of 20:39, 30 December 2008

The official RSS Feed Reader and related home applet are being ported to Fremantle. Even if it's 100% open source, the development is nowadays closed and the input from the community is very small. Unless we all do something about it.

Interested in having an excellent feed reader in Maemo? Get involved!

See also the discussion Love feeds? Read this

1 Core features
2 How to get there
3 Competition
4 Open enhancement requests
5 Open bugs

Core features

Just an idea.

Handles efficiently feeds of text, images, audio, video...
Connects regularly for updates and small transfers.
Downloads volumes of data when wlan is available.
Basic usage through desktop plugin.
Well integrated with browser (and media player?)
Smart syncing with my other feed readers (via online?)
Developed in Maemo but easy to deploy in other platforms.

How to get there

There are different ways to get there:

Everybody gets involved in the development of the official RSS Feed Reader
Existing Maemo community alternatives are pushed. Candidates:
- Feed Circuit
- Penguin TV
- How crazy would be to extend Mauku as a RSS feed reader with a very smart home applet? - or with any microblog app.
- gPodder
- And how crazy would it be to mix it with a podcast app.
- And how crazy would it be to mix feed reader, microblog reader and podcast app?
  - In my opinion, it would be better to keep things separate, because of different usage patterns (if you don't think keeping apps and use cases separate, why not make the all-in-one browser+email+feed reader+microblogging+podcasts+chat+phone+contacts+notetaking+drawing app?) --thp 19:44, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
Ports from GNOME/KDE or anywhere native. Not that Maemo's RSS Feed Reader derives from Liferea. Candidates:
- Your candidates here.
Firefox extensions
- Your candidates here.

Competition

What great products are other (mobile) platforms offering? Name, link and remarkable features that make the app/service so good.

Note also the potential discussion about local app versus web service (and a way in between).

Local apps

Linux

Mac OS X

NewsFire
- Features:
  - Podcast & Enclosure support
  - Integrated blog editor (for posting to personal blog)
  - Groups
  - Labels
  - Smart Groups
  - Search
  - Import/export OPML
NetNewsWire
- Features:
  - Built-in tabbed browser (no need to launch an additional browser to view actual sites)
  - Desktop integration (can notify the user via various desktop widgets)
  - Synchronized clippings (synchronize feeds and feed status with various online services like Bloglines)
  - Will download and transfer podcasts to iTunes (i.e., transfer to another media player)
  - Supports multiple Smart Lists (display filtered results of feeds)
  - Supports custom styles (CSS)
  - Supports grouping/folders
  - Supports article flagging
  - Supports microformats (for Calendar and Contacts)
  - Import/Export of OPML
Vienna
- Features:
  - Podcast support
  - Customisable toolbar
  - Built-in tabbed browser
  - Global search
  - Smart Folders
  - Custom styles (CSS)
  - Three layouts
  - Blogging integration
  - Enclosure support
  - Article filters
  - Manual reordering of the subscription list

Windows

SharpReader
- Features:
  - Handles all RSS versions, ATOM 0.3 and 1.0, modules like dublin core, content:encoding, xhtml:body, etc.
  - Advanced threading support allowing you to view connected items together in a threaded fashion (detects and shows connections between items if they have same link, if one item links to another, if two items both link to the same external webpage, or if an item has comments)
  - Grouping/categories
  - Feed settings (refresh-rate, purge timeout, and category-wide settings)
  - Drag-and-drop subscription method
  - Feedster integration
  - Support for proxy-servers and proxy authentication
  - Reduces bandwidth by using HTTP Conditional GETs and gzip/deflate encoding
  - Desktop integration
  - Import/export OPML
  - Filtering
  - HTTP Authentication support

Cross-Platform

Online services

"Host Your Own" Solutions

Open enhancement requests

no bugzilla tickets were found

Open bugs

Votes	Severity	ID	Summary (12 tasks) ⇒
3	major	3885+	RSS Reader Fails to Read HTTPS RSS Webpages
3	normal	9591+	Distinguish read and not-read articles somehow
2	major	7835+	High CPU usage of osso_rss_feed_reader; huge searchentries file
1	critical	9705+	RSS reader locks up on certain data sets
	normal	5412+	Unable to add Arxiv.org feed
	normal	10803+	Images are sometimes downscaled, losing quality
	normal	8260+	RSS subscription from browser ignored while fetching updates
	normal	10909+	Failed feed parse deletes previous (successful) parse contents
	normal	935+	RSS reader misbehavior on HTTP redirects (RFC 2616 violation)
	normal	5580+	Loading page from RSS item results in different rendering in Browser
	normal	9438+	Continues zooming doesn't work in RSS feed reader
	major	11002	RSS reader doesn't use proxy settings correctly

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 ==== Windows ====
 * [http://www.sharpreader.net/ SharpReader]
+** Features:
+*** Handles all RSS versions, ATOM 0.3 and 1.0, modules like dublin core, content:encoding, xhtml:body, etc.
+*** Advanced threading support allowing you to view connected items together in a threaded fashion (detects and shows connections between items if they have same link, if one item links to another, if two items both link to the same external webpage, or if an item has comments)
+*** Grouping/categories
+*** Feed settings (refresh-rate, purge timeout, and category-wide settings)
+*** Drag-and-drop subscription method
+*** Feedster integration
+*** Support for proxy-servers and proxy authentication
+*** Reduces bandwidth by using HTTP Conditional GETs and gzip/deflate encoding
+***Desktop integration
+*** Import/export OPML
+*** Filtering
+*** HTTP Authentication support
 ==== Cross-Platform ====

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