On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Alexander van Loon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 17:39 -0500, Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote: > > * Web feeds > > > > I don't agree, I prefer what the live feed extension does now. > > What the live feed extension does now seems rather rigid to me, because > it forces the user to use a specialised feed reader, supports only > Liferea, Blam and Straw and requires the user to open the feed reader > because the extension can't start the feed reader automatically. And > besides that, it's an extension and it's not built-in, which means that > the user needs to download the epiphany-extensions package first, and > then needs to enable the extension. > > Ideally, Epiphany's web feeds functionality should be improved so that > it makes both you and me happy. It should maintain the current > functionality to out-source web feeds to a specialised feed reader, and > to use built-in functionality for handling web feeds. > That is exactly what Firefox does. If you want to subscribe to a web > feed, Firefox offers the options to subscribe to it with a Live Bookmark > (built-in functionality of Firefox), a web based feed reader, or a > specialised web feed reader application. Epiphany could copy this from > Firefox. The "News Feed Subscription" dialog could have a drop down menu > to select the option to subscribe with: built-in functionality, feed > reader, web based feed reader.
This is a good idea for an extension. If you know Python, take a look at the universal feed parser, and the epiphany extensions tutorial. -- Eduardo de Oliveira Padoan http://www.advogato.org/person/eopadoan/ Bookmarks: http://del.icio.us/edcrypt _______________________________________________ epiphany-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list
