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UnbreakableMJ

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How do you read your favorite feeds?

Hi! This is my very first post on Arch forums.

I'm wondering about how do you read your favorite feeds? Which software do you use and why (what kind of features).

I'm more interested in finding a little software that uses the system tray.

Yet I'm also curious about just how does, those who utilize RSS, do it.

Personally I've used YARSSR, which is exactly what I want, except for few problems..

On Ubuntu it used to be as easy as make, make install (having build-essenial installed). On Debian 4.0 stable it is in the stable repos, so it was even easier. On Arch it's not in any of the repos nor AUR and make, make install didn't work:

# yarssr
bash: yarssr: command not found
# /usr/local/bin/yarssr 
Can't locate Gnome2.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib/yarssr /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/i686-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i686-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/i686-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/i686-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3/i686-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2/i686-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1/i686-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at /usr/local/lib/yarssr/Yarssr.pm line 3.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/lib/yarssr/Yarssr.pm line 3.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/bin/yarssr line 13.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/bin/yarssr line 13.

I'd love to understand what's going on. How to install it right.

Anyhow, it's far from perfect anyway. It's the single thing that is not working so perfectly on my Debian as it should. Uses way too much CPU, sometimes stays trying to update and never does update nor allow forced updates, no quitting, etc..

I also use Google Reader, which is great to read many feeds and manage them, etc.

All I want is a little applet (maybe GNOME applet?) that gives me quick glimpse of my top favorite feeds, without using my browser nor launching a full-functional aggregator.

Last edited by UnbreakableMJ (2007-05-24 14:43:38)

dolby

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Re: How do you read your favorite feeds?

i use snownews cause its cli

its recommended not to install things manually but by using a PKBUILD to make and install with pacman. after all thats the whole point of package managers isnt it?

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UnbreakableMJ

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Re: How do you read your favorite feeds?

Yeah, I love command-line software. They totally rock!!

I've only found out about snownews today while searching (pacman --sync --search rss)

Thanks for responding.

Last edited by UnbreakableMJ (2007-05-24 15:09:02)

chicha

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Re: How do you read your favorite feeds?

Hi all,

As a KDE user I used to use Akregator.
Now I only use Google Reader.

UnbreakableMJ

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Re: How do you read your favorite feeds?

its recommended not to install things manually but by using a PKBUILD to make and install with pacman. after all thats the whole point of package managers isnt it?

Yes, the point of package managers is to make our lives easier

I just need to learn about PKBUILD

Last edited by UnbreakableMJ (2007-05-24 15:01:36)

UnbreakableMJ

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Re: How do you read your favorite feeds?

Hi all,

As a KDE user I used to use Akregator.
Now I only use Google Reader.

Hi chicha. Thanks for the reply

chicha

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Re: How do you read your favorite feeds?

Hi UnbreakableMJ,

As a Google Reader user, do you know if there is a way to have a feed for all my items (starred, shared and private) ?
The idea I have in mind is to give this google reader feed to a little applet, so that I am warned when a new item is available. A little click on the applet would open Google Reader in my favorite webbrowser ...

Cheers,
Chicha

chaosgeisterchen

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Re: How do you read your favorite feeds?

In case I read RSS, I use aKregator. Kontact is up all the time as I am using it for eMail as well (KMail-part). Great application.

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UnbreakableMJ

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Re: How do you read your favorite feeds?

Hi UnbreakableMJ,

As a Google Reader user, do you know if there is a way to have a feed for all my items (starred, shared and private) ?
The idea I have in mind is to give this google reader feed to a little applet, so that I am warned when a new item is available. A little click on the applet would open Google Reader in my favorite webbrowser ...

Cheers,
Chicha

Hey buddy!

I think the following feed gives you what you're looking for:
http://www.google.com/reader/atom/user/yourusernumberrighthere/state/com.google/reading-list

Last edited by UnbreakableMJ (2007-05-24 16:41:00)

billy

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Re: How do you read your favorite feeds?

i use liferea.

briest

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Re: How do you read your favorite feeds?

JabRSS and my favorite Jabber client.

samoturk

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Re: How do you read your favorite feeds?

Akregator rocks!

Weeks

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Re: How do you read your favorite feeds?

I use google.com/ig

But I really want to move away from google. But want something online.

pjeremy

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Re: How do you read your favorite feeds?

Opera

oli

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Re: How do you read your favorite feeds?

Newsbeuter, http://synflood.at/newsbeuter.html

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Usul

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Re: How do you read your favorite feeds?

Gregarius, http://gregarius.net/

Best of both worlds: It's online accessable (depending where you install it), but no company has access to my data. My installation is on a small router/server in my LAN, from extern I get access with ssh-port-forwarding.

onearm

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Re: How do you read your favorite feeds?

I used akregator (when I used kde as my primary DE), now google reader.

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lloeki

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Re: How do you read your favorite feeds?

i currently use google.com/ig (addstuff->addbyurl), but was recently in the process of looking into setting up planetplanet on my webserver.
my gf used akregator before she switched to macosx.

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PJ

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Re: How do you read your favorite feeds?

http://www.newshutch.com/

iphitus

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Re: How do you read your favorite feeds?

have used newsgator, planet, own scripts, google reader, akregator, blam, raggle.

currently using snownews.

so far, none of them really suit how i want to read my news.

James

UnbreakableMJ

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Re: How do you read your favorite feeds?

Thanks to each of you for the replies. I'm looking into all of them. The command-line ones above are catching my attention the most. Especially snownews, and it's available on Arch repos (as well on Debian repos).

UnbreakableMJ

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Re: How do you read your favorite feeds?

have used newsgator, planet, own scripts, google reader, akregator, blam, raggle.

currently using snownews.

so far, none of them really suit how i want to read my news.

James

Hi James.

I'd like to know how you want to read your news

iphitus

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Re: How do you read your favorite feeds?

have used newsgator, planet, own scripts, google reader, akregator, blam, raggle.

currently using snownews.

so far, none of them really suit how i want to read my news.

James

Hi James.

I'd like to know how you want to read your news

i'd prefer a cli frontend, web front would be bonus (river of news style).

snownews is good, just needs a few tweaks, some ui ones, and the main one being:

often i dont get to read news for a few days straight, so i'd like something i can put in cron and it'll update, and log the news for a few days straight, so when i get back it's all there. this generally limits me to one of the web clients, i dont know any desktop apps that do this.

i might write up an app to do this someday

as for your yassr problem, pacman -S gnome-perl?

James

Last edited by iphitus (2007-05-25 11:32:57)

UnbreakableMJ

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Re: How do you read your favorite feeds?

Thanks James for the tip. I've downloaded gnome-perl and it didn't change a thing.

As for your idea, it's an interesting one. And I support the idea of writing your own

nikron

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Re: How do you read your favorite feeds?

I do not use RSS, has worked out so far.

Last edited by nikron (2007-05-28 20:42:41)