Comments on: Liferea http://matthewhelmke.net/wordpress/2008/05/06/liferea/ Random things that interest me that I may want to remember later. Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:08:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: matthew http://matthewhelmke.net/wordpress/2008/05/06/liferea/#comment-1505 matthew Wed, 07 May 2008 20:17:14 +0000 http://matthewhelmke.net/wordpress/?p=72#comment-1505 Roger: I totally agree! Roger: I totally agree!

]]> By: Roger Lancefield http://matthewhelmke.net/wordpress/2008/05/06/liferea/#comment-1503 Roger Lancefield Wed, 07 May 2008 20:09:43 +0000 http://matthewhelmke.net/wordpress/?p=72#comment-1503 OT but... Just wanted to fire a "Thank you!" to Emelio. I've been using Liferea on a succession of Ubuntus for the last year and a half, at least, and I can't imagine life without it now. I fire it up every day, learn loads from the collective wisdom it delivers and yet just take its availability for granted. This latest glitch-ette notwithstanding, thanks for all your hard work, it's really appreciated! OT but… Just wanted to fire a “Thank you!” to Emelio. I’ve been using Liferea on a succession of Ubuntus for the last year and a half, at least, and I can’t imagine life without it now. I fire it up every day, learn loads from the collective wisdom it delivers and yet just take its availability for granted.

This latest glitch-ette notwithstanding, thanks for all your hard work, it’s really appreciated!

]]> By: matthew http://matthewhelmke.net/wordpress/2008/05/06/liferea/#comment-1490 matthew Wed, 07 May 2008 15:36:30 +0000 http://matthewhelmke.net/wordpress/?p=72#comment-1490 Update: bad news, I just experienced the runaway cpu bug on 1.4.15 when I closed Liferea. Bummer. Update: bad news, I just experienced the runaway cpu bug on 1.4.15 when I closed Liferea. Bummer.

]]> By: matthew http://matthewhelmke.net/wordpress/2008/05/06/liferea/#comment-1476 matthew Wed, 07 May 2008 09:10:15 +0000 http://matthewhelmke.net/wordpress/?p=72#comment-1476 João and Emilio: thanks for the good news and information, gentlemen! EDIT: I downloaded and installed the version currently on GetDeb and it is working beautifully. Yay! João and Emilio: thanks for the good news and information, gentlemen!

EDIT: I downloaded and installed the version currently on GetDeb and it is working beautifully. Yay!

]]> By: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort http://matthewhelmke.net/wordpress/2008/05/06/liferea/#comment-1474 Emilio Pozuelo Monfort Wed, 07 May 2008 09:06:41 +0000 http://matthewhelmke.net/wordpress/?p=72#comment-1474 @Matthew: I've passed the merge to a contributor who said he would do it this Thursday, so I expect it to be in Intrepid this week if everything goes fine. @David: Liferea works fine with FF3... I use it everyday. But feedbag is deprecated long time ago (only useful for firefox 1.5)! Just go to preferences>applications>web feed, and select /usr/bin/liferea-add-feed, and you are done (yes, there's no better way of doing it) @Chris: I take care of Liferea for Ubuntu and I do my best. Of course any help is appreciated, so if you are interested in maintaining it contact me. Regarding the point releases, I keep it up-to-date while Ubuntu repositories aren't freezed, but when we are close to a release, I ask the upstream author and other Ubuntu developers what's their opinion about updating the package, and given their opinion and my criteria, I act. For 1.4.15, the upstream author said it was too risky as it introduced too many changes, so I backported two fixes from 1.4.15 (look at the Ubuntu changelog). @Matthew: I’ve passed the merge to a contributor who said he would do it this Thursday, so I expect it to be in Intrepid this week if everything goes fine.

@David: Liferea works fine with FF3… I use it everyday. But feedbag is deprecated long time ago (only useful for firefox 1.5)! Just go to preferences>applications>web feed, and select /usr/bin/liferea-add-feed, and you are done (yes, there’s no better way of doing it)

@Chris: I take care of Liferea for Ubuntu and I do my best. Of course any help is appreciated, so if you are interested in maintaining it contact me. Regarding the point releases, I keep it up-to-date while Ubuntu repositories aren’t freezed, but when we are close to a release, I ask the upstream author and other Ubuntu developers what’s their opinion about updating the package, and given their opinion and my criteria, I act. For 1.4.15, the upstream author said it was too risky as it introduced too many changes, so I backported two fixes from 1.4.15 (look at the Ubuntu changelog).

]]> By: João Pinto http://matthewhelmke.net/wordpress/2008/05/06/liferea/#comment-1473 João Pinto Wed, 07 May 2008 09:04:06 +0000 http://matthewhelmke.net/wordpress/?p=72#comment-1473 Liferea 1.4.15 was published on getdeb today. Liferea 1.4.15 was published on getdeb today.

]]> By: Chris Conway http://matthewhelmke.net/wordpress/2008/05/06/liferea/#comment-1453 Chris Conway Wed, 07 May 2008 00:27:07 +0000 http://matthewhelmke.net/wordpress/?p=72#comment-1453 The liferea packages in Ubuntu always lag the point releases, and it never seems to get prioritized for backports. On the upside, it's pretty easy to compile it yourself... You may need to chase down some dependences (e.g., libxul-dev) and the Makefiles have trouble finding Lua on Ubuntu installs. I configured with: ./configure LUA51_CFLAGS=-I/usr/include/lua5.1 LUA51_LIBS=-llua5.1 --disable-gtkhtml2 The liferea packages in Ubuntu always lag the point releases, and it never seems to get prioritized for backports. On the upside, it’s pretty easy to compile it yourself… You may need to chase down some dependences (e.g., libxul-dev) and the Makefiles have trouble finding Lua on Ubuntu installs. I configured with:
./configure LUA51_CFLAGS=-I/usr/include/lua5.1 LUA51_LIBS=-llua5.1 –disable-gtkhtml2

]]> By: David McKendrick http://matthewhelmke.net/wordpress/2008/05/06/liferea/#comment-1439 David McKendrick Tue, 06 May 2008 23:14:26 +0000 http://matthewhelmke.net/wordpress/?p=72#comment-1439 Liferea is a great little app. -- my only complaint at this point is that the 'feedbug' (or feedbag, can't recall to be honest) plugin that links it to firefox doesn't have a version out for firefox 3 yet. It's almost making me consider switching to Epiphany or another browser that supports liferea almost 'natively'. Can't help much with that cpu bug, you're on your own! Liferea is a great little app. — my only complaint at this point is that the ‘feedbug’ (or feedbag, can’t recall to be honest) plugin that links it to firefox doesn’t have a version out for firefox 3 yet.

It’s almost making me consider switching to Epiphany or another browser that supports liferea almost ‘natively’. Can’t help much with that cpu bug, you’re on your own!

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