Liferea

Distribution adoption is slow as always, bugfixes released take time to end up at the users... Ubuntu 13.04 1.8.10 Debian Wheezy 1.8.6 Debian Wheezy Backports 1.8.15 Debian Experimental 1.10.1 OpenSuSE 12.3 1.8.14 ... [More] Gentoo Stable 1.8.8 Fedora 19 1.8.15 Fedora 20 1.10.2 FreeBSD 1.8.15 1.8.15 is latest stable version of 1.8 line. So using Debian Backports, FreeBSD and Fedora 17-19 you are up-to-date. Only in Debian Experimental and Fedora 20 you get the most recent stable line. [Less]

Not every interesting website provides a feed. Some feeds are broken. And some websites do provide summaries only or no content at all. Besides asking the owner of the website to add a feed or provide more details the only choice left might be to "scrape" the website content. Read about how to scrape websites with Liferea

Several users reporting startup problems of a self-compiled 1.10 in Fedora (SF bug #1093): (liferea:3798): GLib-GIO-ERROR **: Settings schema 'net.sf.liferea' does not contain a key named 'last-node-selected' Trace/breakpoint trap As you can ... [More] see from the error message Liferea doesn't start because a dconf schema key is not known. A solution was suggested by nmdias: if you experience this problem please try to run /usr/bin/glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas to properly install the schema. [Less]

Starting with Liferea 1.10 you can use a SOCKS proxy. This is possible because Liferea uses the libproxy support provided by the libsoup networking library since 1.10. What is a SOCKS Proxy? SOCKS stands for "socket secure" it simply means to use ... [More] an encrypted connection for whatever you do. Configuring a SOCKS proxy in your desktop environment means that you want all applications to do internet access via an encrypted connection to a safe server you have access to. Why Use a SOCKS Proxy for Feed Reading? Well, this of course is useful if you are in an environment were you do not want others to see what you are reading. Be it political blogs or private but unencrypted feeds. Also you simply might not want for your employer to know what servers you are polling news feeds from anyway. There are many good and bad reasons. How To Use SOCKS Proxy with Liferea and GNOME? First please note that Liferea supports using a SOCKS proxy only via the GNOME network preferences. Actually it relies on libsoup using the SOCKS settings from there. Requirements Liferea 1.10+ with GNOME desktop You have a private server to use as a proxy You can connect via SSH to this server Step 1: Connecting the SOCKS Proxy There are many ways to do this and many online tutorials. The easiest way is to use SSH like this ssh -D 8080 <user>@<private server>Step 2: Client Proxy Configuration So the first thing to do is to configure Liferea to use the GNOME network settings: Ensure to set the preferences to proxy auto-detect as shown in the screenshot above. Next go to the GNOME preferences and configure a SOCKS proxy on "localhost" and port "8080" or whatever port you used when you ran the SSH command. That's it! Try to update feeds in Liferea and watch out for errors in the status line. What About Older Liferea Versions? If you are running an older version of Liferea have a look at this post about a SOCKS proxy workaround using the tool redsocks. [Less]

Are you using a netbook and have not much screen real estate? Then wether it is a mail client or web browser or news aggregator using it in full screen mode gets you more content visible. Less space is wasted for menu elements and window decoration. ... [More] In Liferea press F11 or select "View" -> "Fullscreen" to enable full screen mode. If you want to save even more vertical space consider hiding the toolbar by enabling the option in the preferences dialog. [Less]

This is an easy one: Don't bother entering the exact feed URL when subscribing! These days it is standard for websites to support feed auto discovery. Many blogs and websites actually do not add feed subscription icons and links anymore. The feed ... [More] link is just included in the HTML markup and every aggregator can extract it. No need for you to look for it. To make it even simpler combine with trick #2 and use drag&drop! On every websites whose feed you want to add just drag the favicon from the browser location bar into Liferea. Most browsers do interpret this as dragging the location. Do not even bother copying the URL. Be lazy :-) [Less]

Maybe it is obvious, but you can of course use Drag&Drop to add feed subscriptions to Liferea. You can drag into the subscription list onto the tray icon and Liferea will create a new subscription. You can also Drag&Drop any web ... [More] sites URL and Liferea will try to auto-discover the feed URL from it. Note that dragging URLs into the item browser pane or a browser tab will just launch the URL in the internal browser. [Less]

For all the readers of this development blog I want to share same hidden usability things in Liferea. Today I want to start with using the 3rd mouse button. Place Where To Use Middle Click Subscription List: Click on any subscription or folder to ... [More] mark everything in the subscription or folder as read. Item List (on flag column): Click on the flag column to toggle the flag for an item without selecting it. Item Lists (except flag column): Click everwhere beside the flag column and you toggle the read status of the item even without selecting it. Browser View: In any browser view, be it a browser tab or the item view pane middle click any link to open it in a new browser tab within Liferea. [Less]

This is a bugfix release fixing tray icon minimizing. It also adds seeking to the media player. Please upgrade. The Changes: * Patch SF #222: Make media player seekable (Simon Kågedal Reimer) * Fixes SF #1102: Spelling error in man page ... [More] (David Smith) * Fixes SF #1104: liferea.desktop missing keywords (David Smith) * Fixes SF #1105: Start Minimized to Tray Does Not Work (reported by bitlord) * Fixes SF #1114: Crashes opening browser on item without link via popup (reported by Rich Coe, David Smith) * Improved handling of broken Atom author information. (Lars Windolf) * Removed dead Google Reader code to avoid doing requests to Google. Replaced with dummy source that even allows normal feed updates. (Lars Windolf) * Added hint to FAQ on how to workaround broken Flash support (Lars Windolf) * Dumping feedlist.opml with indentation for readability. (suggested by Christoph Temmel and Simon Kågedal Reimer) [Less]

This is a bugfix release fixing tray icon minimizing. It also adds seeking to the media player. Please upgrade.