Task:RSS feed reader
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
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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
- Features:
- NetNewsWire
- Features:
- On board 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
- Features:
- Vienna
Windows
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 |