OSDir.com: Bitten By the aKregator

Tuesday, 18 January 2005  |  Jriddell

In "Bitten By the aKregator" George Staikos reviews KDE's new RSS feed reader aKregator: "The power of KDE strikes again! aKregator is little more than a repackaging of KHTML and KDE's RSS parser in a more convenient form for reading news, and that's what makes it so nice."

Comments:

woooow - Davide Ferrari - 2005-01-18

Kontact promises to be again a new killer app with such improvements!

Re: woooow - undo - 2005-01-18

kontact ? wrong article ?

Re: woooow - ac - 2005-01-18

Akregator can be embedded as a kpart inside kontact.

Re: woooow - anon - 2005-01-18

akregator is part of kdepim (and kontact)

Lacking Konq-features - Luke-Jr - 2005-01-18

It works nicely, but I quite frequently wish for Konqueror-type features (Address bar, etc).

Re: Lacking Konq-features - Tim Middleton - 2005-01-19

And to obey Konq setting such as minimum font size, etc. I find I often have to open article externally if i want to read more than a few lines. It's a great program though. Really such a simple and straight forward interface... one wonders why it took KDE so long to get a *useful* RSS user interface. Good to see Akregator is getting a lot of attention these days (and was sucked into pim)... things can only get better.

Re: Lacking Konq-features - anon - 2005-01-20

> And to obey Konq setting such as minimum font size, etc already in cvs

Re: Lacking Konq-features - anon - 2005-01-20

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84835

Remove RSS-code from newsticker? - Robert Schouwenburg - 2005-01-19

Since aKregator is stable now, maybe it is a good idea to remove all RSS-related code from newsticker and let newsticker be what it is; a ticker. aKregator could push news-items via DCOP to the newsticker. Moreover these news-items can even be removed after they have been read in aKregator. Again via DCOP. This interface can even allow other applications to post news-items to the newsticker. I can think of Kmail for new messages, Knode for new articles or Korganizer for events and tasks. - Robert

Re: Remove RSS-code from newsticker? - Janne - 2005-01-19

"aKregator could push news-items via DCOP to the newsticker. Moreover these news-items can even be removed after they have been read in aKregator. Again via DCOP. This interface can even allow other applications to post news-items to the newsticker. I can think of Kmail for new messages, Knode for new articles or Korganizer for events and tasks." hmmmm.... I find your ideas intriguing, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter... :)

question.. - ac - 2005-01-20

Does browsing in the aKregator also obey your java, cookie etc. settings?

aKregator and feeds. - famewolf - 2005-01-23

aKregator will not work with the following feed: http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/rssfeed/activeposts.xml Sage and other readers work fine and the feed is validated. I attempted to post a message to their mailing list and got a bounce message about my gmail.com account not being a valid domain...not that impressed. Went to using sage with firefox.