Re: huge weblog post with my suggestions for improvement in Epiphany

["Eduardo O. Padoan" <eduardo padoan gmail com>]

On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Alexander van Loon <svloon xs4all nl> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 17:39 -0500, Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote:
>  >     * Web feeds
>  >
>  > I don't agree, I prefer what the live feed extension does now.
>
>  What the live feed extension does now seems rather rigid to me, because
>  it forces the user to use a specialised feed reader, supports only
>  Liferea, Blam and Straw and requires the user to open the feed reader
>  because the extension can't start the feed reader automatically. And
>  besides that, it's an extension and it's not built-in, which means that
>  the user needs to download the epiphany-extensions package first, and
>  then needs to enable the extension.
>
>  Ideally, Epiphany's web feeds functionality should be improved so that
>  it makes both you and me happy. It should maintain the current
>  functionality to out-source web feeds to a specialised feed reader, and
>  to use built-in functionality for handling web feeds.
>  That is exactly what Firefox does. If you want to subscribe to a web
>  feed, Firefox offers the options to subscribe to it with a Live Bookmark
>  (built-in functionality of Firefox), a web based feed reader, or a
>  specialised web feed reader application. Epiphany could copy this from
>  Firefox. The "News Feed Subscription" dialog could have a drop down menu
>  to select the option to subscribe with: built-in functionality, feed
>  reader, web based feed reader.

This is a good idea for an extension. If you know Python, take a look
at the universal feed parser, and the epiphany extensions tutorial.

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