Rss News Reader?

[shillbert]

As per topic title.

Is there anyone working on converting one for the Pandora? Or does it come with one ready to run.

I'd prefer a stand alone package rather than using something like Firefox.

Ian

 

[Tempel]

Claws Mail's RSSyl plugin is in the Angstrom repo. I know it's not standalone, but if you simply ignore its email functionality, Claws makes for a good dedicated RSS reader.

Problem is that the package in the repo is listed as being for ARM v5te. I don't know if we could force it to install on the Pandora's ARM v7a. Would it be possible for anyone to build an updated package and submit it to the Angstrom repo? I also don't know what their package submission rules are like. So many things I don't know!

 

[Esn]

Is it possible to port Thunderbird to Pandora? That's what I use for RSS feeds now.

 

[Vitel]

Is it possible to port Thunderbird to Pandora? That's what I use for RSS feeds now.

Thunderbird is too heavy for Pandora IMHO. I'd prefer Claws mail, because it is much faster.

 

[maplesugarlover]

what about Liferea ? http://liferea.sourceforge.net/

 

[Wootson]

RSSOwl is an option I guess. It runs on multiple versions of Linux.

http://www.rssowl.org/

But it does need Java to run, so that might slow down the Pandora a little bit. But it's an excellent application, that I personally use both on Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.4.

 

[DrCJBoduma]

what about Liferea ? http://liferea.sourceforge.net/

I've used Liferea on ubuntu, thought it was pretty good. I think it also saved the feeds so you could read when offline.

CJ

 

[maplesugarlover]

RSSOwl is an option I guess. It runs on multiple versions of Linux.

http://www.rssowl.org/

But it does need Java to run, so that might slow down the Pandora a little bit. But it's an excellent application, that I personally use both on Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.4.

rssowl is a ram hog on my laptop with 2 gigs. the pandora has 1/8th of that.

 

[Zotty]

Java to read RSS? That's like shooting a mosquito with a tank :blink:

 

[DrCJBoduma]

Claws Mail's RSSyl plugin is in the Angstrom repo. I know it's not standalone, but if you simply ignore its email functionality, Claws makes for a good dedicated RSS reader.

Problem is that the package in the repo is listed as being for ARM v5te. I don't know if we could force it to install on the Pandora's ARM v7a. Would it be possible for anyone to build an updated package and submit it to the Angstrom repo? I also don't know what their package submission rules are like. So many things I don't know!

I've tried to install this plugin but with little success(or knowledge of what I was really doing). Anyone had any better luck?

CJ

 

[shillbert]

Liferea looks nice and compact, The less I have installed the better on all my systems.

 

[Tempel]

I've tried to install this plugin but with little success(or knowledge of what I was really doing). Anyone had any better luck?

I gave it a shot on my Touch Book. Turns out the package is an old version that doesn't work with the current Claws. I then tried installing the Debian package, but came up against unavailable dependencies (namely "libcurl3-gnutls" is not in the Angstrom repos, nor any libcurl before 4, so I don't know how to satisfy that dependency). Maybe this is harder than my earlier statement implied.

 

[DrCJBoduma]

Liferea looks nice and compact, The less I have installed the better on all my systems.

Just in case you didn't see this

http://www.gp32x.de/board/index.php?/topic/54923-the-pandora-apps-thread/page__view__findpost__p__888373

Liferea PND

 

[shillbert]

I didn't, thanks for the heads up.

Now all I need is a Pandora.

 

[DrCJBoduma]

I didn't, thanks for the heads up.

Now all I need is a Pandora.

Just been messing about with it now, seems to work perfectly.

CJ

 

[Clean3d]

Don't know if it helps, but I've been using http://beta.bloglines.com for a while now. Works well enough on the Pandora, and is viewable from Fennec/Firefox. My only gripe is that it often displays an "Internal Server Error" which goes away after a few page refreshes.

 

[Gerix]

I use conky for my news ticker (it even uses the Gentoo logo to separate stories). Would that work for the Pandora? Also, I had a problem with loading more than one story per source. I think it was putting in a newline character that would screw up the scrolling banner.