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Bug 348327 - Use RSS plugin to choose feed reader when using the new FireFox 2.0 feed view
Use RSS plugin to choose feed reader when using the new FireFox 2.0 feed view
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: epiphany
Classification: Core
Component: [obsolete] Backend:Mozilla
git master
Other All
: Normal enhancement
: Ephy/XR
Assigned To: Epiphany Maintainers
Epiphany Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-07-22 12:40 UTC by Luca Ferretti
Modified: 2011-04-24 19:29 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Attachments
A screenshot of my jhbuild sandbox showing Epiphany displaying a feed in FireFox 2.0 fashion (96.12 KB, image/png)
2006-07-22 12:42 UTC, Luca Ferretti
Details

Description Luca Ferretti 2006-07-22 12:40:10 UTC
FireFox 2.0 provides a view of feeds. Compiling Epiphany against firefox 2.0 you are able to view feeds in Epiphany too (see attached screenshot).

This is an interesting and zero-cost feature for Epiphany, but there is an issue: FireFox put an header in feed view, explaing what a feed and providing a button to subscribe to the feed. When you click on button, the FireFox "Subscription Options" dialog appears. This is not good in Epiphany:

 * first the dialog suggest you to use LiveBookmarks, a FireFox only feature, or other web-based feed readers
 * second we have already a RSS feed plugin, able to contact installed feed reader.

My suggestion is:
 1. Keep the feed view in Epiphany. It's a zero cost feature and you have to click over a feed link to open it.
 2. Remove the Subscribe button from the feed view, and use instead RSS plugin if available
 3. Make feed view header translatable in Epiphany, so you don't have to install Firefox language packs
 4. (future) implement something like Safari to "zoom" in timeline :-)
Comment 1 Luca Ferretti 2006-07-22 12:42:12 UTC
Created attachment 69379 [details]
A screenshot of my jhbuild sandbox showing Epiphany displaying a feed in FireFox 2.0 fashion
Comment 2 Christian Persch 2006-07-22 16:35:55 UTC
I haven't looked in detail yet, but it might be that implementing what bug 346741 suggests would fix this.

I can't see the preview using xulrunner as backend, so it is possible this is ff-only and the dialogue isn't overridable...
Comment 3 Sebastien Bacher 2006-10-31 09:46:00 UTC
Ubuntu bug about that: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/epiphany-browser/+bug/69286
Comment 4 Alexandre Franke 2011-04-24 19:29:15 UTC
Since Epiphany is now using a Webkit backend, I'm closing this as obsolete.