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ok that seems to be a hanging feedingit from the widget at the moment i closed the widget a instance popped up.

what does the font size of the artical listing do now? i am trying to set it to way smaller sizes but it stays very big.

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0.7 is a bit of a preview version to integrate the patches that were sent to me. Right now, the article listing font size doesn't do anything, and version numbers and links aren't updated yet.

As for your issue, I don't really have any good ideas. You could try to export your feeds to file, then:
mv /home/user/.feedingit /home/user/.feedingit.bak
to reset everything, and then re-import the feeds.
That will give you a fresh start, but I have a feeling this won't change much.

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Hi

When i select auto-update do i have to have the widget and/or app running for it to update? is there an invisible daemon?

Thanks,

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Yes, both the app or the widget can do automatic updates (they each have their own setting to enable it, but it needs to be running to get triggered). The easiest is to enable it in the widget, and to leave that running (it's lower memory than the app to leave running, and the update is less disruptive CPU-wise).

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having a new issue with feedingit right now... started using the auto update with the latest build pushed into extras testing and now after a week of auto updates it appears to do nothing. i opened the app about an hour ago and got the update in progress please wait screen, this is still on the screen and feeding it appears to be doing nothing.

a couple of requests for this screen, could you add a progress bar to it (the style in the latest ver of gpodder looks good) and could you also add a cancel button to stop the update?

sucks i miss reading my feeds this morning....

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i killed python2.5 update_feeds.py and i can now see my feeds but looks like nothing was updated since friday at 4pm when i last did a manual update.... note my auto update s set for every 4 hours...

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"achived articles" function does not work.
every time when i tap artices from achived articles,it shows me "this articles has not been load......"
what can i do?

thank you!

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@jer006: sounds like the updating got into a deadlock. Not quite sure how that happened though. I'll add a "force kill" or something like that as a safe way around it.

@harry: Did you update the Archived Articles feed (either update with the Update All, or just the single Update Feed)?

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Hey, what I really miss is something like a "global inbox". Like a "virtual feed" or "filter" that contains all the unread items from all the feeds. Then one could read all the unread articles by swiping through them without having to switch feeds. :)

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something weird happening since the last update. Now it seems to stay stuck in portrait mode when im doing other things. a 'flip' or 'shake' doesn't make it come out of it unless i switch to something else via the dash.

also updates seem to work intermittently even when the widget and app is running. It's like the n900s timer has it's own mind. either that or the scheduling hooks are screwed up!

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@jug: that's an interesting idea, but I think it'd quickly turn into un-usable (you start to notice some performance degradation with feeds over 200 articles, and a global inbox would probably reach that number quickly).

@gurpal: Are you using the automatic update from the widget, or from the app? Note that if you don't have an internet connection at the time, an update would just skip until the next time.

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@slocan - I had both configured at 4hours. OK i will check what happens tomorrow. it could may well be that there was no net cnx at the time. But then logic to sync at the next opportunity might be a good solution.

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Cannot help with the development so donate $3 instead. Really like 0.7 the interface is great, also notice that "back" is almost instant now! (Is this something to do with gtktree or backend optimization?)

I think I had issue with some feeds not updated, but somehow the issue disappeared...

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Yes, the use of the TreeView speeds things up for the display, probably because it has fewer objects to iterate through, but don't quote me on that. So, let's give thanks to Thp for implementing it!

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I was wondering if you could put some dilineation between the articles like previous releases? It's hard to see each article now. Also the title of the article used to be word wrapped.

Thanks for the great app!

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Totally agree. +1.

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no it didnt, i deleted the whole .feedingit dir to start over
imported the feeds but still the same thing. but i now get it prety much on all feeds also engagdet for example when clicking a link in the feed.

what component is touched with this error?

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I've been having orientation issues with the last few versions - I've set FeedingIt to Landscape mode, but it still auto-rotates. It doesn't do this in Portrait mode, but using this removes access to the Preferences dialog (well, it's still there, it's just that it's only about 5 pixels high at the bottom of the screen). Are these known issues?

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@bigbiff: The dividers are actually there. Unfortunately, they are set to black, so on most themes, you can't see them. I haven't yet found how to change either that, or the background to make them stand out, but I totally agree this needs changing.

@jcompagner: That's a warning coming from the Gtk engine (the underlying component that maemo uses to render apps). It's like it is not able to determine the colormap depth (number of colours the screen is able to draw). One test you could do is to download http://feedingit.marcoz.org/webbrowser.py to the phone, and then run it from the X-Term window as "python webbrowser.py" and see if you can navigate one of these sites.

@Rob1n: PR1.2 changed the flag that needs to be set to stay in Landscape. Thp published a fix recently to his portrait library that I'm using, so I just need to integrate it. Not sure what's wrong with the Preferences dialog in portrait mode, but it needs fixing indeed.

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Another thing that seems to have changed recently is read feeds font size. A read feed now gets larger and usually needs to add a second line or more. If I remember correctly, read feeds used to stay the same size, turn white, and italics. It was better before, IMO.

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The feed list has it, but the articles list does not. I've tried to change the articles list to display the separators, but was unable to do so. One option would be to create a "darker" color variant for the "unread" and "read" colors and then alternate between the normal and darker variant. Or maybe override the cell renderer to draw a faint line at the top (or bottom?) of the cell, so that separators are visible again - in this case, we can chose which color to draw the line.

The fix is now merged, it's pretty minor, but does the job :)

Can't reproduce this here with the latest Git release (with the default theme).

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Another thing that seems to have changed recently is read feeds font size.

I am using Nokia digital nature. Do you see it with this theme?

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It really is there in the article list. But you need to use a "light" theme (for example Alpine from Ovi) to actually see it.

@sorodoros: Can't reproduce that either. The italic part will be re-added, right now it only change the colour once it's read. But the font should stay the same. There is a word-wrap issue sometimes, in particular for titles over 2 lines, in that a title is cut-off at first, but displays properly on 3 lines when it is updated (to change the colour after reading it). Maybe that's what you're noticing.

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I get it now. Portrait mode "shortens" long article titles to one line, cutting them off. After they have been read they are displayed in full - two lines, or more. Is this the intended behavior? I am fairly certain this was handled differently just a week or so ago. My bad that the font grew. It doesn't.

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No, this is not intended at all, but it is indeed what is happening

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Great app. Use it as my primary rss reader. Everything works great except for tumblr.com feeds. It is added and shows the number of unread, but on selecting that, it displays 'No articles to display'. BTW, the tumblr feeds work correctly in the stock reader and Resistance.

Am I missing something or this is a bug?

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@manavs: I just tried the staff.tumblr.com/rss feed, and it works fine for me. Is there a specific one that doesn't work? Maybe try to remove and re-add it. If it still doesn't work, start the app from the X-terminal by type FeedingIt (case sensitive), update the feed, and let me know if there are any messages coming up.

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Excellent!! Re-adding it worked. works perfectly now. Thanks again.

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exact same crash/problem when opening an engadget url

So maybe the only way is a full flash? but thats what i did with pr1.2 already (and then i got this problem) or are there some config files left in the home dir that could be in the way? (i only flashed root)

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I have a weird problem with the RSS feed from a wordpress blog. Sometimes the titles of the articles are correct and other times they are all the same (probably the user name of the poster on wordpress). When it switches back and forth, all the articles are relabeled as unread. I have no idea what causes it to switch as it is not when the poster has created a new blog entry.

Has anyone else seen this behavior? I assume it is a problem with Wordpress but maybe there is something in the way FeedingIt is interpreting the RSS feed from Wordpress. Thoughts?

Fred

P.S. I will likely be slow in responding as I am in the middle of a cross-USA motorcycle trip and there are many places where AT&T doesn't have coverage, just like the Verizon commercials point out.

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@jcompagner: Could you be using a strange theme, maybe? Does it happen when using the default theme (another shot in the dark). Otherwise, not sure what to suggest, maybe worth a separate thread to see if more knowledgeable people than me have a clue.

@ffarber: hmm, the use of Etag was added recently to the update mechanism, maybe some blogs have some issues with that. If you have a way to reproduce consistently, please let me know.

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Can I infer that a fix is on the way? :D

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Slocan-
I suppose you can try my daughter's blog at audreyruth.wordpress.com (ignore the existential musings, she is in a bit of a transition. The other thing I should mention is that I use alarmed to fire off updates at specific times.
Thanks,
Fred

Re: FeedingIt - RSS Reader
 

0.7.0-3 in extras-devel now. It includes mostly UI changes. Thp made some really cool changes, in particular a redesign of the subscriptions menu. I also added some fixes for the article listing when switching portrait from/to landscape, and a custom coloured background so we can see the dividers between items (might be annoying for themes using dark fonts, so subject to change).

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This doesn't work on my device. Ive got pr 1.2 installed and it seems that this isnt compatible. As some of my other widgets did the same thing. All i see is a black square, i can move it or go into options but nothing else there to see. Am i missing some files? This happened with a few other widgets I had when i did the update & also some apps ceased working which i removed as didnt need them anyway.
Ive read up a few pages here but then realised theres too many to catch upto!
Any ideas anyone as to why Im seeing a black square widget instead of the proper thing?

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The PR1.2 upgrade seems to be doing strange things to widgets already set on the screen. Remove, then re-add the widget, that should get it back to normal.

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still doesnt work :( Ive also tried to access its options/settings via the wrench icon but that does nothing, so i can only add or remove this widget which is basically a small black square.

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Open up X-term, and type (case sensitive):
cat .feedingit/feedingit_widget.log
let me know if anything shows up here.

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tried it a couple times and just get the error "No such file or directory". It is installed so thats strange unless the directory name is incorrect?

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That's possible, it'd mean there weren't any errors reported, which also means I have no idea why the widget would stay black :(.
As a long shot, try:
rm .feedingit/widget