Re: is there no sane, minimal, graphical RSS feed reader in existance?

[Johannes Schauer <j.schauer@email.de>]

Hi,

On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 01:21:53PM -0700, Mike Castle wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 1:20 AM, Johannes Schauer <j.schauer@email.de> wrote:
> Our of curiosity, why choose a local app over a central service like
> Reader or any of the others out there?
> 
> I used to be a big fan of such local apps, but since I could be on any
> number of machines (2 home desktops, a couple of laptops, few machines
> at work), I've found a web app a lot more convenient.

My reason is: I only have one machine with Xorg and access all other
machines (home desktops, home servers, few clusters and other machines
at work) via ssh. Since there is no other machine with a screen, I would
only read my rss on that one machine and thus, having a local app is
sufficient. Even though I have a umts flatrate as well, I mostly use
umts when traveling (mostly via train) and there the connection is very
flaky. So for me it is very useful to have my reader try downloading it
periodically and then reading it all offline.

Of course my other machine with a screen is my smartphone but due to
limitations of screen size I dont use it for my rss feeds as some of
them heavily rely on big photos/images (like photo blogs and webcomics).

To the fsync issue: even with replacing fsync calls by empty ones,
liferea is very slow. It's faster than before but far slower than a
small python/gtk/webkit rss reader I hacked together in the meanwhile
which reacts in an instant to any user input of mine instead of taking a
few seconds to react. Since other users on the web report similar issues
with liferea (even with fsync disabled) I dont think this is a
misconfiguration of my system and liferea is just slow in general.

thanks for your input!

cheers, josch