http://www.gnome.org/projects/straw/ News about Straw, the GNOME feed reader en-us Copyright 2002-2007 Straw contributors Sat, 6 May 2007 00:00 +0000 jmalonzo@unpluggable.com jmalonzo@unpluggable.com Sun, 6 May 2007 00:00 +0000 <ul> <li>Added hooks to NetworkManager to detect network status</li> <li>Support for feed enclosures (Leandro Lameiro)</li> <li>Improved key shortcuts (Andrew Conkling)</li> <li>Fixed close button bug in the About dialog (Wouter Bolsterlee)</li> <li>Added button to find tab to go to back to main view (Leandro Lameiro)</li> <li>Use stock icons for connect and disconnect</li> <li>Set default browser to empty instead of empty string in GCONF schemas (Leandro Lameiro)</li> <li>Bugfixes by Ryan P Skadberg</li> <li>New Arabic and Dzongkha translations (GNOME i18n Team)</li> <li>Updated translations by the GNOME i18n Team</li> </ul> Sat, 4 Mar 2006 16:00 -0500 Straw is back and we have a new release! Changes include: <ul> <li> Minimum dependency on Python2.4 and PyGTK 2.4.</li> <li> Autoloading of feed content on feed selection.</li> <li> DBus support (Subscribe to feed)</li> <li> More usable find dialog.</li> <li> Clipboard copy and text magnification content view.</li> <li> FeedParser 4.1.</li> <li> Feed sorting in the feed list view.</li> <li> Marking all feeds as read.</li> <li> Bugfixes and cleanups.</li> </ul> Mon, 30 May 2005 00:00 +0000 Straw can be found in the 'extras' repository. Instructions can be found at <a href="http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/readme.extras"> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/readme.extras</a>.<br/> Thanks to Adrian's <a href="ttp://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169969"> bug report</a>. Sun, 16 Jan 2005 14:31 +0200 Juri Pakaste is stepping aside as the maintainer of Straw. Jan Alonzo will take over the job. Thu, 15 Jul 2004 22:20 +0300 <ul> <li>Fix a regression in installations where ADNS available, now it works right again</li> </ul> Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:30 +0200 <ul> <li>Major speedups in feed parsing and feed information updating</li> <li>Show startup notification, show the main window earlier, make the startup faster</li> <li>Improved article view, also focusable again</li> <li>Updated translations</li> <li>Some more locale/encoding problems fixed</li> <li>Make sure pygtk is always initialized correctly</li> </ul> Wed, 07 Jul 2004 12:30 +0200 <ul> <li>Remote OPML subscriptions for categories.</li> <li>Half-asynchronous subscribe process.</li> <li>Configuration and installation fixes.</li> <li>FeedParser 3.2</li> <li>Notification area applet, displayed when there are unread items.</li> <li>Locale handling fixes.</li> <li>Nicer article header.</li> <li>Display feed link in article header, move the old feed information display to the feed properties dialog.</li> <li>Bug fixes, small UI improvements.</li> </ul> 24 Apr 2004 13:25 +0200 <ul> <li>Per-subscription settings for refresh frequency and number of articles stored</li> <li>UI improvements and bug fixes</li> </ul> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 18:52:12 +0200 <ul> <li>Fixes in entity conversion and title slicing</li> <li>Don't check for the existence of mxDateTime in setup.py</li> </ul> Tue, 17 Feb 2004 18:09:05 +0200 <ul> <li>Categories</li> <li>Drop mxDateTime dependency: you still need it the first time you run this version with an old db, but not after that: see README for information about the conversion and the dangers</li> <li>Authentication challenge in the subscription druid</li> <li>Various UI improvements</li> <li>Use Python distutils instead of a Makefile</li> <li>Probably some bug fixes too!</li> </ul> Fri, 25 Nov 2003 23:59:00 +1100 <ul> <li>Proper installation of the schema (GConf)</li> <li>Feed information setting in GConf</li> <li>Dutch translation</li> <li>Various bug fixes and updated .no translation</li> </ul> Fri, 14 Nov 2003 19:51:00 +1100 <ul> <li>Fix a bug in feed information display</li> </ul> Thu, 13 Nov 2003 23:43:10 +0200 <ul> <li>Somewhat improved main window layout and keyboard navigation</li> <li>Context menu in the subscriptions list</li> <li>Feed properties dialog</li> <li>Refactored code</li> <li>Fixed problems with some broken http implementations</li> <li>Update the default subscriptions to include the footnotes feed with the full items</li> <li>Remove totally useless blogroll/subscriptions list support</li> <li>Bug fixes</li> </ul> Sat, 01 Nov 2003 01:05:16 +0200 <ul> <li>Atom support</li> <li>Reduced memory consumption</li> <li>Eliminated the worst freezes in the UI</li> <li>Switched completely over to Mark Pilgrim's FeedParser, no longer two separate parsers</li> <li>Improved the UI a bit</li> <li>Fix bugs with mixed up feeds</li> <li>Live with slightly broken HTTP servers that use just LF as a header separator</li> <li>Reduced dependencies: no more need for PyXML, make ADNS optional</li> <li>No more HTML in Article list</li> <li>SubscribeDialog is now a GNOME Druid</li> <li>Dragging of URLs from browsers now works</li> <li>Move configuration stuff to gconf</li> <li>Change timings and number of connections, should be faster now</li> <li>Various bug fixes</li> </ul> Sun, 07 Sept 2003 13:03 GMT <ul> <li>Fixed bug that makes straw not quit properly</li> <li>Fixed HTML character entity conversion</li> <li>Strip HTML tags in feed description</li> <li>Minor Bugfixes</li> </ul> Thu, 21 Aug 2003 15:40:00 GMT Bah, missed the online/offline images again, somehow. This release fixes that. And one bug. Sat, 16 Aug 2003 23:40:00 GMT <ul> <li>We're alive!</li> <li>Show a warning dialog if the user tries to poll when offline</li> <li>Remember the positions of the panes in the main window</li> <li>Try to fix the item list column size problem a bit</li> <li>Prettify the item display</li> <li>Some support for the PRISM namespace</li> <li>necho support</li> <li>We don't use threads anymore</li> <li>Works with Berkeley DB 4</li> <li>Dashboard front end</li> <li>Use the gnome_href widget in feed information view</li> <li>Read dublin core creator from channel</li> <li>Connection timing out now works independently of something arriving down the wire</li> <li>Display cogwheels next to feeds being actively polled</li> <li>Commands for navigating between feeds</li> <li>Automatically change a feed's location when the server sends a 301</li> <li>Updated translation for French, new, probably already outdated translations for Norweigian and Russian - guys, sorry for being so slow</li> <li>Plenty of bugfixes, probably plenty of new bugs</li> </ul> Sat, 16 Aug 2003 23:40:00 GMT There are now two mailing lists for Straw: straw-devel for development discussions and straw-commits which gets all the CVS commit messages. See the Straw project page for details. Tue, 18 Mar 2003 17:45:00 GMT Oops. Forgot to include the online/offline images in 0.18. This time they are in the package. Honest. Mon, 17 Mar 2003 17:45:00 GMT <ul> <li>Ability to import subscriptions in OPML format</li> <li>A list of default subscriptions (in OPML format)</li> <li>Autosize the item list columns so the Keep toggles won't drift to the right</li> <li>Fix the browse button in feed information view</li> <li>Fix the blogroll subscriptions stuff, it was apparently broken since 0.16</li> <li>Fix dealing with invalid HTTP status lines</li> <li>Proxy support: read proxy information from GConf, and if not found there, from the environment variable http_proxy. If a proxy is being used, don't look up other host names.</li> <li>Support all(?) HTML entities in item titles</li> <li>Add an offline mode, switchable in the UI (thanks to the makers of Evolution for online/offline icons), or on the command line (--offline)</li> <li>Deal better with broken DNS records</li> <li>Deal with redirects not containing a full URI</li> <li>Make feed sorting work if only one feed is selected</li> <li>Clean up error display: don't show exception memory location junk or the errno in case of socket.error</li> <li>Fix main window size remembering</li> <li>Add some unit tests</li> </ul> Fri, 28 Feb 2003 08:15:00 GMT <ul> <li>Remove the bogus Referer option</li> <li>Items can be marked to be on hold, that is, non-expirable</li> <li>Make dialogs more dialogey: they are now transient and will be called to front when displayed</li> <li>The preferences dialog now allows the selection of and operations on multiple feeds</li> <li>Send a Referer header pointing to the RSS file when fetching images</li> <li>Don't report parsing failure on status 304</li> <li>Added French translation</li> </ul> Wed, 19 Feb 2003 14:10:00 GMT Major delay in the release of 0.16 was caused by a nearly complete reworking of the network layer of Straw. The new release should be stabler and more responsive.<br /> Please note that the new version adds more dependencies: you now need the <a href="http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/adns/">ADNS</a> library and the corresponding <a href="http://dustman.net/andy/python/adns-python">Python binding</a>.<br /> New stuff: <ul> <li>Asynchronous networking instead of synchronous networking in a thread.</li> <li>Show a broken image symbol if there was a problem fetching the image. While waiting for an image to get downloaded, a waiting symbol is displayed.</li> <li>Fixed about box, now it can be displayed multiple times per session.</li> <li>Added German translation.</li> <li>Improved error reporting: no more exception spew to stdout/err, try to show all the errors in the feed view and show error icons in the feed list. Store errors with feed information.</li> <li>Don't re-fetch blogroll/subscriptions every time the user asks for them, only after polling</li> <li>Find works now for freshmeat information, too</li> <li>Save and load the main window size</li> <li>Workaround for the broken gettext in Python < 2.2.2(?)</li> <li>Cleaned up the code</li> </ul> Sun, 5 Jan 2003 23:10:00 GMT <ul> <li>Fix a problem with web servers which don't support If-None-Match</li> <li>Create links to Creative Commons licenses</li> <li>Save more data from articles: Freshmeat stuff, Dublin Core creator, Creative Commons licenses</li> <li>Previous/Next now wrap around the feed list</li> <li>Fix a problem with sessions</li> <li>Deal with entities in titles so they aren't displayed in the item list</li> <li>Minimize horizontal space usage by feed list columns after adding/removing feeds</li> <li>Filter out font tags in item descriptions</li> <li>Minor fixes</li> </ul> Fri, 20 Dec 2002 22:30:00 GMT <ul> <li>Internationalization support</li> <li>Preliminary Finnish translations</li> <li>Strip URLs to avoid broken links</li> <li>Fix find so it won't break after multiple searches with no hits</li> <li>Make the find dialog a real dialog which appears where mouse cursor is, and make the text field grab keyboard focus when the dialog is displayed</li> <li>Clean up the main window interface a bit</li> </ul> Sat, 23 Nov 2002 01:30:00 GMT <ul> <li>Recognize RSS 0.9 namespace, fixes problems with at least mail-archive.com feeds</li> <li>Accept gzipped content</li> <li><b>Really</b> disable the subscriptions / blogrolls menu item when there's nothing available</li> </ul> Tue, 14 Nov 2002 12:10:00 GMT Straw is now in Debian unstable! apt-get install straw and no need to worry about dependencies any more. A big thanks to <a href="http://www.burtonini.com/">Ross</a>. Sun, 10 Nov 2002 23:00:00 GMT 0.13 introduced a small bug to handling of broken RSS, fix that Sun, 10 Nov 2002 21:00:00 GMT <ul> <li>Fixes to db handling: checkpoint, destroy unneeded logfiles, put smaller limits to log size. Disk space usage should be better under control now.</li> <li>Remove the separate RSS URL field from subscribe tool, it's not needed - you can type the RSS url into the news site location field if you want.</li> <li>Accept url drags from browsers etc in the main window.</li> <li>Fix problems with extra whitespace here and there: just remove it when parsing.</li> <li>Fix more character set problems.</li> <li>Add a bit of CSS to item display, to show q elements better.</li> <li>Disable subscriptions / blogrolls menu item when a feed without either is selected.</li> </ul> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 00:00:00 GMT <ul> <li>Export subscriptions list as OPML</li> <li>Use ETag/If-None-Match HTTP headers to reduce bandwidth usage</li> <li>Fix character set problems</li> <li>Fix search regression</li> <li>Rename subscriptions/blogrolls browsing, only make it active on feeds that have one of them</li> <li>Try to parse XML with Expat even if there is no &lt;?xml ... declaration</li> <li>Look for images in content:encoded if it exists</li> <li>New version of rssparser.py</li> <li>Makefile commands and install prefix overrideable by environment variables</li> </ul> Mon, 14 Oct 2002 01:00:00 GMT <ul> <li>Support for most of blogChannel module in the UI: see menu item Go/Subscriptions and blogrolls</li> <li>RSS 1.0 and RSS 0.9x/2.0 support are now equal. Straw now supports content:encoded, freshmeat namespace, blogChannel namespace, and some more of Dublin Core</li> <li>Convert UTF-8 entities to characters in item titles for the item list</li> <li>Don't show empty items</li> <li>After finding a feed, save its items so another poll won't be needed</li> <li>Added an icon</li> <li>Added a .desktop file so Straw will show up in menus</li> <li>Install to the GNOME installation directory</li> </ul> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 01:50:00 GMT Fix keyboard item navigation Tue, 24 Sep 2002 01:50:00 GMT Less broken and more responsive search, search button in toolbar, read and display RSS 1.0 content:encoding, work around empty items in storage Fri, 20 Sep 2002 00:50:00 GMT Incremental search for items, number of unread displayed in title bar, alphabetical sort for feeds. Wed, 16 Sep 2002 01:10:00 GMT More DB fixes, some fixes to the adding of items to feeds, cosmetic UI fixes. Wed, 12 Sep 2002 10:00:00 GMT Another fix for potential DB corruption Wed, 12 Sep 2002 00:15:00 GMT Lots of little UI fixes, a DB corruption fix Thu, 12 Sep 2002 00:01:00 GMT Straw's new home page is hosted at <a href="http://www.freesoftware.fsf.org/straw/">freesoftware.fsf.org</a>. The news feed can be found <a href="http://www.freesoftware.fsf.org/straw/news.rss">here<. Sat, 08 Sep 2002 23:00:00 GMT Quick-fix for a bug in preferences dialog. Sat, 08 Sep 2002 22:20:20 GMT Straw 0.9 has been released. There are some notable UI improvements: a fancy subscriber tool, a channel information display and some sorely needed speed. Sat, 31 Aug 2002 15:00:00 GMT Straw 0.8 has been released. It includes a more liberal RSS parser, RSS quality feedback, referer headers for RSS fetching, timeouting sockets, plus the obligatory bug fixes and small UI improvements. Sat, 17 Aug 2002 08:45:00 GMT Straw 0.7 has been released. This version features local storage of items and images, some UI improvements and bug fixes.