Comments on: Further tinkering with Gregarius http://www.fouldsy.com/2006/04/19/further-tinkering-with-gregarius/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:04:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Sudheer http://www.fouldsy.com/2006/04/19/further-tinkering-with-gregarius/#comment-12355 Sudheer Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:27:14 +0000 http://www.fouldsy.com/?p=347#comment-12355 Yes, I just tried Akregator. The inability to turn off Delete confirmation is really an annoyance. Yes, I just tried Akregator. The inability to turn off Delete confirmation is really an annoyance.

]]> By: fouldsy http://www.fouldsy.com/2006/04/19/further-tinkering-with-gregarius/#comment-147 fouldsy Thu, 20 Apr 2006 13:55:04 +0000 http://www.fouldsy.com/?p=347#comment-147 Frank, thanks for getting in touch! I hope I didn't give the impression I wasn't impressed with Akregator, I am, and realised that most of the issues I was experiencing were resolved with a newer release. I wasn't aware how it tied in with KDE-PIM, so hadn't realised the separate update path. I've now updated my system (Kubuntu 5.10 AMD64) to KDE 3.5.2 which is something I was planning on doing anyway, so I now have Akregator 1.2.2 running. Multiple selection deletion is now correctly supported. Would be nice if the deletion prompt could be turned of - I have seen a bug/feature report for this though. As for some feeds not displaying as I would expect, if I take one of the BBC News feeds such as Technology or Motor Sport, I get a 1/2 line article description and then a link to the main article. This isn't Gregarius causing a problem as I get the same display format in the web-based version, and I can add the main feed direct from BBC and get the same issue. I think it's more down to the way the content provider is creating formatting the feed. Again, I have seen something in the bug reports whereby it's not seen as a fault of Akregator. Overall, am quite happy with the way Akregator is handling the feeds now and feels easier to work with now I have multiple selection deletion. One nice feature I'd like to see other than being able to turn off the delete confirmation is when deleting items from a feed, items marked as important are kept to allow you to delete items you don't want to keep, and leave those classed as important. Thanks for all your suggestions though - am open to any more! Frank, thanks for getting in touch! I hope I didn’t give the impression I wasn’t impressed with Akregator, I am, and realised that most of the issues I was experiencing were resolved with a newer release. I wasn’t aware how it tied in with KDE-PIM, so hadn’t realised the separate update path.

I’ve now updated my system (Kubuntu 5.10 AMD64) to KDE 3.5.2 which is something I was planning on doing anyway, so I now have Akregator 1.2.2 running. Multiple selection deletion is now correctly supported. Would be nice if the deletion prompt could be turned of - I have seen a bug/feature report for this though.

As for some feeds not displaying as I would expect, if I take one of the BBC News feeds such as Technology or Motor Sport, I get a 1/2 line article description and then a link to the main article. This isn’t Gregarius causing a problem as I get the same display format in the web-based version, and I can add the main feed direct from BBC and get the same issue. I think it’s more down to the way the content provider is creating formatting the feed. Again, I have seen something in the bug reports whereby it’s not seen as a fault of Akregator.

Overall, am quite happy with the way Akregator is handling the feeds now and feels easier to work with now I have multiple selection deletion. One nice feature I’d like to see other than being able to turn off the delete confirmation is when deleting items from a feed, items marked as important are kept to allow you to delete items you don’t want to keep, and leave those classed as important.

Thanks for all your suggestions though - am open to any more!

]]> By: Frank http://www.fouldsy.com/2006/04/19/further-tinkering-with-gregarius/#comment-146 Frank Thu, 20 Apr 2006 08:27:08 +0000 http://www.fouldsy.com/?p=347#comment-146 > I�m finding Akregator a bit clunky though - no > ability to delete multiple items, prompts on > deletion of *every* item with no way to turn it > off, Which version do you use? Multiselection and -deletion is supported since 1.2 (KDE-PIM 3.5.0). > and doesn�t display full articles, mainly links > elsewhere. For which feed(s)? > As their site is down after getting hit with DoS > attacks, I can�t get in and download a newer > version, as what scraps I pull from the Google Note that Akregator is part of <a href="http://www.kontact.org/" rel="nofollow">KDE-PIM</a> now, so you wouldn't be able to get a current version from akregator.sf.net anyway. You need to install the latest kdepim, or use a distribution that splits kdepim and provide a single akregator package. > I�m finding Akregator a bit clunky though - no
> ability to delete multiple items, prompts on
> deletion of *every* item with no way to turn it
> off,

Which version do you use?
Multiselection and -deletion is supported since 1.2 (KDE-PIM 3.5.0).

> and doesn�t display full articles, mainly links
> elsewhere.

For which feed(s)?

> As their site is down after getting hit with DoS
> attacks, I can�t get in and download a newer
> version, as what scraps I pull from the Google

Note that Akregator is part of KDE-PIM now, so you wouldn’t be able to get a current version from akregator.sf.net anyway. You need to install the latest kdepim, or use a distribution that splits kdepim and provide a single akregator package.

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