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

[Alexander van Loon <svloon xs4all nl>]

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.