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



Hi again,

about half a year ago, I complained about the lack of a good, minimal
RSS reader:

On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 10:20:47AM +0200, Johannes Schauer wrote:
> I've been looking for a good RSS feed reader for years now but I still
> seem not to be able to find a sane, minimal graphical RSS reader.
> 
> What I'm using now is liferea which is okay but could be more minimal
> and mainly, is way too slow to enjoy using it (search for the fsync
> issue).
> 
> [...]
> 
> What I'm looking for is not much: it would just depend on either
> gtk/qt/efl/whatever for its UI, would have one list of the feeds,
> another list for recent feed items and another frame with a gecko or
> webkit plugin for presenting the item. Why this feature/dependency bloat
> everywhere?
> 
> Why is there no simple reader with minimal dependencies? Am I just
> overlooking one? Are my requirements too weird? I'm not afraid to
> compile from source either, should it not be in Debian. Should I like it
> I would also package it for Debian.
> 
> As I said, liferea is close (just had to bear with the gconf2
> dependency) but slow as hell (and no, I refuse to use the "fsync
> workaround").
> 
> Are there others that share my need? If there is really no such thing
> as a real minimal graphical RSS reader, I'm close to writing one
> myself.

Well, I wrote one myself and here it is:

	https://github.com/josch/pyferea

Posting it here, as there were some others also interested in a
solution.

cheers, josch


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