Evolution-rss
The first thing I do after Ubuntu presents me with its glorious brown theme is to open my email client which in my case is Evolution. Seeing that my high priority folder is empty, I go to my feed reader to catch up on news, blog issues, developing threads and collect my thoughts.
Do I go to my Google reader which means opening the browser? Do I fire up the RSS client reader? Remember those?
Linux has three favorite feed readers. The most popular is Liferea (linux feed reader) which is too slow and freezes a lot (makes users wait while it does its job) but is wonderfully integrated into the GNOME environment. There's Blam which uses the fast rendering engine, Webkit. Great speed but lacks good UI features like keyboard hotkeys for navigation and links to the browser. There's also Straw which is a surprise because it's also quick and light (two window panes as opposed to three). I would have settled for Straw.
But I remember this thread in the Ubuntu forums about this little known plugin for evolution. It enables evolution to fetch feeds much like email messages into your email client. Enabling it means I only have to open Evolution to get my email and news and blogs. Great.
Just open Synaptic from System>Administration>Synaptic. Type in evolution-rss in the search field. Mark the appropriate package for installation. I have an xml file of my Google reader subscription saved in my home directory. I opened evolution and exported the xml file to start importing the feeds exactly as in my Google reader service.
The first thing I do after Ubuntu presents me with its glorious brown theme is to open my email client which in my case is Evolution. Seeing that my high priority folder is empty, I go to my feed reader to catch up on news, blog issues, developing threads and collect my thoughts.
Do I go to my Google reader which means opening the browser? Do I fire up the RSS client reader? Remember those?
Linux has three favorite feed readers. The most popular is Liferea (linux feed reader) which is too slow and freezes a lot (makes users wait while it does its job) but is wonderfully integrated into the GNOME environment. There's Blam which uses the fast rendering engine, Webkit. Great speed but lacks good UI features like keyboard hotkeys for navigation and links to the browser. There's also Straw which is a surprise because it's also quick and light (two window panes as opposed to three). I would have settled for Straw.
But I remember this thread in the Ubuntu forums about this little known plugin for evolution. It enables evolution to fetch feeds much like email messages into your email client. Enabling it means I only have to open Evolution to get my email and news and blogs. Great.
Just open Synaptic from System>Administration>Synaptic. Type in evolution-rss in the search field. Mark the appropriate package for installation. I have an xml file of my Google reader subscription saved in my home directory. I opened evolution and exported the xml file to start importing the feeds exactly as in my Google reader service.
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