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Any progress on this?

Also, is there a way to purge old articles? My .feedingit directory is over 200MB.

Thanks again for a most useful program!

Hi Slocan, I am a big fan of the application and have noticed a couple of things while using the application recently:

1) When I navigate through (swiping) the engadget feed on my n900 when i get to the end of the unread feeds my cpu spikes at 100% and eventually I get the OS prompt to kill the unresponsive program. I have feedingit set to hide read items. So far I only notice this behaviour in engadget - I have a number of feeds setup but really only read engadget and maemo.org and I am guessing it might have something to do with the sheer number of articles in engadget

2) When swiping left and right through articles or scrolling down through an article I noticed that sometimes it can mistake these operations for a link click and open the external browser with the link clicked. This is not a big deal but would there be any way to make it such that a long click on any link within an article would open the external browser (or link in feedingits window). This way there would be no way for a scroll or swipe to be misinterpreted as a click because you happened to start the swipe over an image etc.

3) The desktop widget is awesome but I noticed that it can be somewhat slow to respond i.e. click the update or the app buttons and it will take a second or two to acknowledge the click (the update turns into an X).

4) Any way to get the widget transparent or an option to make it transparent so that it looks similar to the calendar (or most other) widgets?

5) When an update is occurring (auto or started from the widget) and you start the application up can you show the status bar at the bottom of the application so that you know what progress/time is left to complete the update?

So far for me this application is probably my most used (more so than angry birds!) so thank you for all your hard work, it is truly an awesome program.

Hey, I'm having the same issue with my n900, but I've only recently bought it and I have never installed feedingit before. Any advice?

Sorry for the delays in replying, i've had little internet access for a while.

@stobbsc: There is no google reader support. Google doesn't have an official API (and I don't use google reader)

@tnhh: The latest version in extras-devel should only update the timestamp when new articles are pulled.
There is also an issue with removing old titles, so they might still show in the listing, but the actual data (images, html) should be removed. 200MB might be too unusual if you have lots of feeds with images. If you'd like it to be looked more closely, feel free to send me by private message a listing of file sizes and dates.

@jer006: 1) that's the issue mentioned with titles, that are not being deleted. I should have a fix in the next couple of days.
2) That's handled by the OS/UI, so not too much I can do about it. I don't really like long click, they feel quite unnatural.
3) I could make it look more responsive by faking it, but right now, the update button is actually waiting to make sure the update is started before changing its icon. It's just slow to start a python process in general.
4) I'd like to, but haven't found how to make it transparent yet.
5) It's possible, and I'm interested in having the bar show up, but it's not technically straightforward, it'd actually require quite a few changes which I probably won't take the time to do for a bit.

@Rmark & Crugath: libxslt is part of the main Nokia repository if I remember correctly. Make sure it is enabled, and refreshed in the Application Manager. It's possible it was unavailable for a while.

This is not working for me. I just removed my .feedingit directory and started anew. Refreshing the built-in Maemo News feed updates it with the current timestamp rather than the timestamp of the newest article. This is with the latest version from extras-devel: 0.80-4

I see what you're asking now. New version should work that way now, it's a good idea.

Uploaded 0.8.0-5 in Extras-devel. For those upgrading from 0.8.0-4 (current devel version), there will be duplicate articles in the listing and some older articles might appear higher in the list, as a date bug had to be fixed.
That version also changes the background colour, for the feed articles, it should be more theme-friendly.

Thanks! All seems to be working now. Finally I can sort my feeds by date again.

hi!
how can i make feedingit to open links in Firefox and not bundled in browser?
thanks

I just updated... now the widget is completely gone. Also I can't add a new feedingit widget to desktop. Any ideas?

I seemed to have lost rotation in the last update (0.8.0-5). Tried re-saving the settings, no go. Anyone else? TX