GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 324511
RSS feed detection / Firefox RSS icon in address bar
Last modified: 2007-05-30 21:30:55 UTC
Firefox 1.5 (and apparently upcoming IE7) have this orange "RSS feed available" icon that appears automatically when you access a page with such a feed attached (in the link-rel tags, I presume). Admittedly I haven't tried an Ephy built against Firefox, but this would be a neat feature to have, none the less. I have no clue where a "default RSS reader" would be configured in GNOME, tho.
Thanks for your feedback. GNOME doesn't have a default RSS reader as of yet (but that may change in the future, who knows). But there is the Newsfeed extension, that works with Liferea. If you have any requests for that, I suggest to change this bugs' component to epiphany-extensions.
Fair enough. Actually, I don't really love the idea of a separate RSS reader on the desktop anyway (whereas on a mobile device it makes perfect sense - in fact, an "RSS subscription" should be pretty much the same idea as with podcasts, I think). But are there plans to provide Firefox style live bookmarks in Epiphany? That's what the icon is tied to in FF, after all.
*** Bug 324843 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 337141 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Why is this bug agaist ephy and not the extension?
http://feedicons.com/ has a bunch of feed icons, including an svg one. However I was unable to see any license attached. Would anyone have concerns about redistributing the icon?
I would be concerned, yes :) We need a GPL-compatible licence for the icon. You could ask them to attach a licence to their work.
Created attachment 63606 [details] [review] patch without icon Thought you might. I've already asked Matt Brett about the license. In the meantime here's the necessary code changes (just add water.. err, rss-feed-icon.svg)
+ icon_theme = gtk_icon_theme_get_default (); Please add a /* FIXME multi-head! */ comment here. Did you get an answer about the licence?
Ping!
I still don't see any explicit license and I've pretty much lost all momentum with this one.
There is a "usage guidelines" document by Mozilla Foundation at http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/feed-icon-guidelines/
Can't we just use the icon from 325084, until it is included in g-i-t (if that will ever happen)?
No, since the icon from bug 325084 lacks a licence too.
Are you concerned regarding the copyrights to the particular Tango-adapted icon, or regarding a possible trademark on the icon? For the former, surely Raphael can clear up the copyright concern, and for the latter, I would think that the Mozilla guidelines I linked to in a previous comment would cover this: "The feed icon is freely available for general use in connection with web feeds using open web syndication formats, without the need to enter into a trademark license agreement or similar legal arrangement."
I believe the solution to our license problem is this: http://actsofvolition.com/images/screenshots/tango/rss/ Looking at the source of the svg files, it is clear they are published under a Creative Commons license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/
CC-BY-SA is not GPL compatible, acoording to http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html .
Arrrrrgh.
I have mailed Steven Garrity with the question if he'd be willing to relicence the icon. However, I am a bit confused. The GNU.org license list recommends using the Free Art license instead of CC-BY-SA, however about the Free Art license itself it says "Please don't use it for software or documentation, since it is incompatible with the GNU GPL and with the GNU FDL". Is an icon software or documentation?
Good news is, I'm glad to re-license the icon I drew under whatever (reasonable) license is required (GPL, LPGL, etc.). Bad news is, I still don't know what license is appropriate for icons. I think all of the G-I-T icons are LGPL. I'm glad to use that license for the icon.
Created attachment 88721 [details] GPL'ed rss icons I just received a GPL'ed version of the RSS icons from Steven (thanks a lot!). Attaching them now.
And after all this trouble, it turns out that this was already fixed in January: http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/epiphany-extensions/trunk/extensions/rss/icons/scalable/status/feed-presence.svg?view=log D'oh.