Notices

I've just released a new development release, 0.0.6.1. You should be able to upgrade via the Application Manager.

New in this release:

* A (very) simple settings dialog to configure auto-purging and feed updating
* Favicon support in the feed list (not finger friendly yet)
* Better handling of feeds with lots of articles
* A bunch of fixes and wee things

Any feedback gratefully received. Please report bugs to the tracker.

Mark

I've just released version 0.0.7. What this version lacks in new features, it makes up for with improved speed and bugfixes.

This version includes:

* Improved startup time
* Drag scrolling on the article frame
* The hardware zoom buttons now map to a list frame each
* Many bugfixes, including several crashers
* Much improved list handling code has made things faster and more stable

Have fun and please report any issues to the tracker. Thanks for playing!

Mark

Yeuch - just released 0.0.7.1 which fixes the nasty bug that would prevent new users from starting Nibbles. Ouch.

Thanks for all work on this!

I was just wondering, I know this is a work in progress and you have many plans for adding things yet. Should I add any features I would like to see to the tracker in the Garage? I have dropped a couple of suggestions in other places and I am sure you have a list of things you want to add yet but I thought adding them to the tracker might be helpful.

Hi Ron,

I've made a half-hearted list of things on the Garage wiki, but I'd much rather have them on the tracker. Posting things there would be a real help and could save something good from being forgotten.

Cheers,

Mark

I appreciate the work you are doing on this and your responsive ness.

I have added a bunch of ideas to the tracker. Many of these are things I have seen in other readers (mainly desktop ones) that I liked. Some may not be feasible on the tablet but I figured I would list them just in case.

Keep up the great work!

Well, I've mucked with it a few times, but thing just doesn't want to go. It opens, and it loads the current default feed, but I can't add any new feeds. I go to add feed and put in: www.engadget.com/rss.xml
It says it's fetching the feed, but it never shows. The new link and articles are non-existent. Here's the output when run from the terminal:

/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/libosso.rb:127: warning: tried to create Proc object without a block
Fetching feeds at Sat Mar 08 14:39:36 -0800 2008...
http://mark.scottishclimbs.com/feed/maemo/atom.xml
finished fetching - sleeping...
www.engadget.com/rss.xml
Address family not supported by protocol - socket(2)
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in `initialize'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in `open'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in `connect'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:48:in `timeout'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:76:in `timeout'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in `connect'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:553:in `do_start'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:542:in `start'
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/nibbles/lib/feed_fetcher.rb:66:in `download'
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/nibbles/lib/feed_fetcher.rb:33:in `fetch'
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/nibbles/lib/window.rb:178:in `add_feed_dialog'
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/nibbles/lib/window.rb:177:in `initialize'
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/nibbles/lib/window.rb:177:in `new'
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/nibbles/lib/window.rb:177:in `add_feed_dialog'
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/nibbles/lib/window.rb:174:in `run'
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/nibbles/lib/window.rb:174:in `add_feed_dialog'
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/nibbles/lib/window.rb:92:in `setup_menu'
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/nibbles/nibbles:126:in `call'
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/nibbles/nibbles:126:in `main'
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/nibbles/nibbles:126
Fetching feeds at Sat Mar 08 14:42:55 -0800 2008...
http://mark.scottishclimbs.com/feed/maemo/atom.xml
finished fetching - sleeping...
Purging old articles...


Now, the first part before "sleeping" is when it loads the article. The following is when I attempt to add a feed. I then quit. Starting it back up still shows the single default feed. The error occurs wether I prefix the address with http:// or not.

Now, I first thought my issue was dependencies. My app-manager says I did not have ruby1.8-libxml and sqlite3 installed (I currently have sqlite installed). I installed ruby1.8-libxml, but I could not install sqlite3 since libsqlite3-0 is nowhere to be found. Mind you, none of these were requested by the Nibble debian installer anyways.

The "Address family not supported: seems to be a common error due to ip6 stuff and is not an issue:
http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/652.html

I'm not sure if the rest of the lines are errors or just standard logs. I know quite a few languages, but I've never had a reason to dig into Ruby (just a tad of Python is all).

Anyhow, I'd LOVE to get Nibbles running, so any suggestions would be excellent. Thanks for any help!

- Jim

Just FYI, I already have ruby1.8-maemo, ruby1.8-sqlite3, and lynx installed and running fine.

Ugh...guess I better sign up for an account on Maemo Garage.

- Jim

Hi Jim,

Is it only the Engadget feed? Can you try some others?

I can reproduce the Engadget problem on my N800. It's a strange problem, since it works fine on my desktop (identical Nibbles code).

It's expected that the initial feed (Mark's Maemo posts) is empty, since there haven't been any posts in the last 5 days (default configuration setting).

You shouldn't need ruby1.8-libxml. It sounds to me like the installer got all of your dependencies right (I doubt you'd get as far as you have without them).

The other lines are the backtrace from the "Address family not supported exception". I'll look into that bug, it's not immediately obvious what's wrong.

Good luck (let me know if you have any luck with other feeds),

Mark

Here's some info on that "Address family not supported" bit. It appears the most you can do is subdue the error message, but then you risk not getting information if that error occurs on the real IPv4 socket. Alternatively, I suppose you could re-compile the kernel to support IPv6, but I doubt that is worth the trouble.
http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread172735.html

Anyhow, I've tried 3 other feeds with identical results. I'm running OS2008 51-3 with a N800. Virtual memory is turned off.
slashdot.org/index.rss
feed://www.macnn.com/macnn.rss
feed://crave.cnet.com/8300-1_105-1.xml

- Jim