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@ -31,8 +31,17 @@ no sane RSS feed reader out there that would please me. I did not think that I
would require much. Just three panes for feeds, entries and content, keeping
record of unread entries and rendering content in a browser. Liferea came close
but was poisoned by feature bloat (as many others... especially gnome
dependencies) and major slowness. Pyferea does just what I want, is simple, DE
agnostic (uses python and gtk) and fits in about 1000 lines of code.
dependencies) and major slowness. On top of that it created a new feed entry
everytime I accidentally drag&drop something. I call all of those bugs and they
never got fixed. Pyferea does just what I want, is simple, DE agnostic (uses
python and gtk) and fits in about 1000 lines of code.
Pyferea is for you if you want:
- an offline feed reader
- no gnome, KDE, mono dependencies
- no rss reader as a browser plugin
- not terminal based, hence webbrowser for rendering
Bugs
====
@ -47,6 +56,23 @@ it. If anybody feels inclined to do so, then patches are welcome.
Dependencies
============
apt-get install python-gobject python-yaml python-lxml python-feedparser gir1.2-webkit-3.0
As of February 2012, the dependency size of the following feed readers in a
fresh Debian Sid minimal chroot:
pyferea: 172MB
liferea: 225MB
gpodder: 226MB
blam: 408MB
akregator: 758MB
Keyboard shortcuts
==================
To make it faster to switch between the three panes and scroll in them, use the
keys 1, 2 and 3 to select the first, second or third pane respectively.
feeds.yaml
==========
@ -76,3 +102,12 @@ ythtml5.js
A javascript that I load upon each pageload to convert youtube videos into
their html5 versions so that the webkit plugin can render them even withoutme
having flash.
Possible future work
====================
(patches welcome)
- build debian package
- add hooks to load custom javascript/css for feeds
- i18n