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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: aKregator in CVS
From:       Marcus Camen <mcamen () mcamen ! de>
Date:       2004-12-08 19:32:00
Message-ID: 200412082032.04031.mcamen () mcamen ! de
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> > KNewsTicker does not use dcoprss at all, but if you could elaborate a
> > please on how exactly you found it to be unreliable, I might be able
> > to tell you the actual reason.
>
>    Hm then why does dcoprss get started here?  That's the only rss app
> prior to akregator that I have ever used to my knowledge.

Loooooong ago there was kdenonbeta/konqsidebarbackendserver. The idea was 
if you have 10 konqueror windows open and they show for example 10 
newsticker sidebar applets you want a proxy to cache the RSS feeds. 
Otherwise you will start a kind of mini DDoS of 
http://www.kde.org/dotkdeorg.rdf everytime you update the feeds.

It turned out that kdenonbeta/konqsidebarbackendserver was a bit to 
generic but for RSS feeds there was a real use case. So Ian and Frerich 
created kdenetwork/dcoprss from scratch and I ported the sidebar applet 
from konqsidebarbackendserver to dcoprss. I am aware of at least one tool 
on apps.kde.org which is based on the DCOP service. Plus there is the 
dcoprss kontact plugin.

Of course a common, 
more-powerful-than-dcoprss-is-now-maybe-akregator-based RSS 
infrastructure would be nice. Judging from Safari and Mozilla it seems to 
me that in the near future RSS support will be a standard desktop 
functionality like browsing the web with http.

Right now joe average user will get knewsticker, dcoprss kontact plugin, 
akregator kontact plugin, sidebar plugin, akregator, konqueror akregator 
menu plugin. Too much of them with different configuration tools, 
different icons, different usage, ...
But IMHO we won't get this fixed for KDE 3.4. Especially as we cannot 
remove any applications within the KDE 3.x series.


-- 
Marcus

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