Re: [TESTERS WANTED] Nibbles - a feed reader
 

Hmm. Are you able to tell me what happens when you try, please?

Re: [TESTERS WANTED] Nibbles - a feed reader
 

Installed fine here on my n800 with os2008. By the way Is it a planned feature to download complete articles, including comments? That is a thing i miss most in the default RSS reader, besides the poor use of screen estate in the article-list, and the non-finger friendly devide between the viewpanes.

Some features I would like:
- sidepane optionally containing only the finger-friendly feed icons as buttons to select to save screen estate.
- side pane display/hide toggle
- possibility to download whole articles, 'mark for download' selectionboxes, and state indicators (downloading/downloaded/error)
- purge, autopurge,option to purge older than x days
- maybe a way to detect number of comments? would involve html scraping I guess.

Re: [TESTERS WANTED] Nibbles - a feed reader
 

Phew, it's not just me! Any other success/failure stories with the .install file?

Definitely want to download complete articles/linked pages for offline reading. This won't happen immediately but I see it as a pretty essential feature. I'm still thinking about how the comments ideas would be implemented.

An excellent idea.

The "+" and "-" buttons do this just now.

These are all planned features once I'm confident enough that the basic feed parsing and reading code is pretty stable.

Thanks a lot for your thoughts,

Mark

Re: [TESTERS WANTED] Nibbles - a feed reader
 

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Re: [TESTERS WANTED] Nibbles - a feed reader
 

hmm, it innstalled fine if i did the ruby stuff and lynx manually first...

Re: [TESTERS WANTED] Nibbles - a feed reader
 

ill be...

while copying over some feeds from the osso reader, i found a small checkbox that allowed me to turn of images pr feed. talk about hiding it in plain sight...

Re: [TESTERS WANTED] Nibbles - a feed reader
 

installed fine on n800, it got all pre-reqs by itself. Easily configured to read new york times.

seems to me the item summaries in nibbles are more succinct. it that my imagination?

nibbles does not show articles. it launches the web browser to actually read rhem. right?

In the article list, I have several copies of same article listed. nibbles sees old as new? i have 2 in black and one in red. is red new or old?

i wish i could mark these as 'keep' or 'forget' or 'not read'

What do buttons at bottom do? I see no effect from the one that looks like 2 clipboards.

Was guessing the round arrow button forces an update of article list?

For me, offline reading would be the biggest feature.

PJ

Re: [TESTERS WANTED] Nibbles - a feed reader
 

Good news, thanks tso. Do you have an n800 or an N810? So far, I've only heard of success stories from N800s and only heard failures from N810s, but not enough of either to really tell.

Thanks,

Mark

Re: [TESTERS WANTED] Nibbles - a feed reader
 

n800 with os2008 installed ok.

Re: [TESTERS WANTED] Nibbles - a feed reader
 

Yay! Fingers crossed that it works on N810s too.

I think it is your imagination! I certainly don't truncate them at all, just display them as they come.

That's right. At the moment Nibbles uses the text browser Lynx to format the HTML summaries and the built-in browser to view complete articles. This may change in the future as the ruby-gecko bindings are due to be released for Maemo soon.

It would be an option to use Lynx to view the full articles within Nibbles instead of lauching in a browser. Would you prefer that as a possibility?

Red means that you haven't viewed that article, black means you have.

Duplicate articles sound like a bug though (Nibbles should be smart enough to not create duplicates for edited articles). Can you tell me the feed URL for the feed with duplicates, please? Or you can file a bug report...

Yes, but it currently only updates the selected feed (a silly choice, next version will update all, if the button is still there). The other button marks all articles in the selected feed as read. Marking articles as "keep", etc will come, but not immediately.

Thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate it.

Mark