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RSS/RDF/Atom Aggregation in KDE 3.4

Posted by michael on from the news-junkie dept.

comforteagle writes "With KDE 3.4 beta just announced a few days ago spokesman George Staikos has written about the new RSS/RDF/Atom Aggregator included in the new release, aKregator, in his column KDE: From the Source. 'In contrast to a news ticker style of RSS application, you don't need to constantly look at aKregator to see if there is new news. I have found that with news tickers such as the applet in KDE, I was constantly staring at the news feeds as they scrolled by and re-reading the same headlines over and over. With aKregator, I find I never look at old news as headlines that are read are conveniently grayed out and pushed down the list.' This is a much better way to track news in KDE than the somewhat outdated news ticker."

6 of 96 comments (clear)

  1. Why is everything getting an aggregator? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I mean... really. My browser, my email client, now desktops... sheesh... How long until we have Solitaire with RSS support?

  2. Alright alright by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Those of you who are going to ignore the article 'kontent' and make wise-'kracks' line up over here.

  3. Used this three weeks.. it's good by Werrismys · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I subscribed security issue related sites, like F-Secure for WinCrap(tm), cert.fi... hell, even Slashdot has RSS feed ;-)

    Works like a charm. It's just that KDE's tight monopolistic ingegration with Konqueror gets in the way.

    Try as I will, I cannot tie Firefox as tightly to KDE as I'd like. Now I end up using lightweight Konqueror for some stuff and Firefox for surfing (familiarity over speed, or something).

    --
    'Once scientists, even the dim-witted social scientists, get muzzled, the Western Civilization is finished.' - oldhack
  4. News tickers have their place by saddino · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I was constantly staring at the news feeds as they scrolled by and re-reading the same headlines over and over.

    This is really a criticism of application design and not the model per se. If the KDE applet doesn't allow you to "see each item once" then that is probably a good feature suggestion.

    As the developer of an RSS ticker (Tickershock, for Mac OS X) I find that the happiest users are those who aren't interested in peering at news headlines all day, but rather enjoy the randomness of "catching a good story" every now and then.

    Tickers aren't for eveyone (but neither are email-style aggregators) so if the tickers on CNN/MSNBC/FoxNews/etc. drive you crazy, you're probably right to steer clear of them on your desktop.

  5. This is nothing new by DJStealth · · Score: 4, Informative

    The RSS plugin for Trillian has been doing this for years. It only pops something up when there's a new piece of news (and appears as a different colour in the list for the first minute of it being 'new').

  6. Oh the humanity! by erikharrison · · Score: 5, Funny

    aKregator? They put a "K" in aggregator?

    Just stop. Just - just stop. Please.