Re: GNOME news aggregators



Heya,

  On a personal note, i would love a "gnomized" version of liferea.

On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 00:11 +0100, Lars Lindner wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm not sure if this is the best place to ask this question, so
> please point me to the correct list if necessary.
> 
> My concern is the following: Since a while I'm driving the development
> of a GTK+ based news aggregator named "Liferea" [1]. For a long time the
> goal was to go without GNOME to be a bit more portable (Solaris, Cygwin,
> non-DE users...) with only minor build dependencies. In the recent time
> this became less important and a lot of drawbacks became more apparent.
> This begins with a self-written HTTP client, missing download manager
> and MIME type support, problematic proxy configuration, missing password
> managment and a lot of other issues.
> 
> As of today I'm pretty sure that most users will run Liferea with a
> GNOME desktop installed which makes it appealing to reuse GNOME
> components to gain code quality and time to focus on features.
> 
> Another important point is the relative lack of at developers working on
> the project or simple code reviews as a standalone project.
> 
> Therefore my question: Given those conditions does it make sense and is
> it possible and is there interest of having a GNOME based version of
> Liferea? Besides Straw and Blam (I'm not sure about the activity of both
> projects) is there need for a non-Python and non-Mono GNOME news
> aggregator?
> 
> --
> Lars Lindner
> 
> [1] http://liferea.sf.net
> 
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