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RSS notification GUI in other webbrowsers

A lot of people are using webmail or online RSS feed reader.
As far as i'm concerned, that's what i do : it allows me to easily manage my
mails and news from differents computers, and i do everything from my
webbrowser.

At present time, Epiphany doesn't allow me to add a web feed to my online RSS
feed reader (i.e. netvibes)

As far as i'm concerned, i really like Epiphany but that is something i really
miss when i use it.

However :
- Epiphany already has a plugin that detect web feeds when they are available
- Epiphany can already be used to add web feeds to an online RSS in many ways :
1°) i can use a bookmarklet (like this one for netvibes :
http://eco.netvibes.com/tools/extras)
2°) if i want to add to netvibes the web feed available at
http://libre-et-ouvert.blogspot.com/  i can manually enter the command :
epiphany
http://www.netvibes.com/subscribe.php?url=http://libre-et-ouvert.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

But it's not user-friendly.

Others webbrowsers allow user to set its own RSS feed reader and display the
dedicated icon in the url bar (which is possible with GtkEntry since GTK+ 2.16
i think).
When a web feed is available, the orange icon is displayed and if the user
click on it, the feed is added to the RSS feed reader.

Since that feature is widely spread in other browsers, having it would make
Epiphany more consistent (1)

Concerning the well-known orange feed icon, i think it can be used within
Epiphany
http://blogs.msdn.com/rssteam/archive/2005/12/14/503778.aspx
http://operawatch.com/news/2006/06/mozilla-asks-opera-to-sign-agreement-before-it-uses-its-rss-feed-icon.html

Concerning the implementation of the requested feature within Epiphany ; i
don't know if it can help but Midori has it since v0.1.6
http://goodies.xfce.org/releases/midori/ChangeLog
in http://git.xfce.org/apps/midori :
2009-04-14    Add News Aggregator preference
http://git.xfce.org/apps/midori/commit/?id=a9863cfb40d794632df31cbd121d6a54efbdb309
2009-04-13    Display the news feed icon again
http://git.xfce.org/apps/midori/commit/?id=c27642e9124669cda91d85bcaeb02a794c661721
2009-04-11    Use progress and icon GtkEntry features with GTK+ 2.16
http://git.xfce.org/apps/midori/commit/?id=592e55c59b5a2933b46650089f9fcf6881e4e488

Thanks

(i don't know if that bug is related to
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=340179 which was about
epiphany-gecko)

(1) see :
- GNOME HIG
http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/principles-consistency.html.en
- Apple HIG p46 "Consistency" and p42 "Reflect the User’s Mental Model" (with  
"familiarity" as keyword)