Description for Liferea is geeky

On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 05:02:34PM -0000, mac9416 wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Binary package hint: software-center
>
> The Software Center description of Liferea is rather unhelpful and
> confusing.
>
> """
> Liferea is a simple FeedReader clone for GNOME. It is a reader for RSS/RDF feeds which also supports CDF channels, Atom/Echo/PIE feeds and OCS directories.
>
> Liferea is an abbreviation for Linux Feed Reader.
> """
>
> This is what I read:
>
> """
> Liferea is a simple FeedReader clone for GNOME. It is a reader for RSS/<huh?> feeds which also supports <blah, blah blah/>.
>
> Liferea is an abbreviation for Linux Feed Reader.
> """
>
> I don't consider myself too terribly noobish, so it may be even less
> helpful for others.
>
> ** Affects: hundredpapercuts
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
> ** Affects: software-center (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
> ** Also affects: hundredpapercuts
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
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> Description for Liferea is geeky
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/602815
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I understand your concern, but the problem is that liferea is a gnome
app, just to help you a little here, liferead supports many different
types of RSS feeds which are basically updates from a website. The other
types listed there are the other types of updates a website can give
out, so if you stumble across one, you can use liferea to get updates
from that site. I'll forward this one upstream and see what response
they give :)

 status confirmed
 importance low

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Regards,
Vikram Dhillon

"I think, therefore I am" -- Descartes

OK, that helps make some sense of it. Still, I think the "average user" wouldn't find that info helpful. /me sits back and waits patiently to see if the GNOME folks agree.

On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 02:30:31PM -0000, mac9416 wrote:
> OK, that helps make some sense of it. Still, I think the "average user"
> wouldn't find that info helpful. /me sits back and waits patiently to
> see if the GNOME folks agree.
>
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> Description for Liferea is geeky
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/602815
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Thanks for your patience :) see what happens is that as you go through
your awesome Ubuntu journey, you'll find websites that *only* provide
ATOM feeds and it may be a website you want updates from, so then you go
out looking for a feed reader that supports ATOM and there you go :)
liferea provides exactly what you are looking for. This is the case of
some average users out there, they maybe only looking for a feed reader that
supports ATOM or rdf becaue that's the only way they can get updates
from a certain website, so when they read description, it becomes easy
:)

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Regards,
Vikram Dhillon

"I think, therefore I am" -- Descartes

I'll talk with upstream people and see what they have to say :)

I agree with Vikram Dhillon, the issue here is not the feed protocols listed, users do search for the applications that can support the protocol they require.

The description can be properly worded and arranged , either similar to GIMP's [ Bug #599785 ] or Pidgin's [ Bug #259793 ]

Yeah, I think it could be worded better. BTW, thank y'all for working on this. :-)

Has any progress been made on this yet? Is there an alternative description kicking about somewhere?

Working with the Debian part, see the remote bug watch.

This bug was fixed in the package liferea - 1.10.9-1ubuntu1

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liferea (1.10.9-1ubuntu1) utopic; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian unstable (LP: #1335837). Remaining changes:
    + debian/patches/ubuntu-example-feeds.patch.
    + debian/patches/port-to-messaging-menu.patch.
    + debian/patches/libunity.patch.
    + debian/control: build-depends on libmessaging-menu-dev libunity-dev.
    + debian/rules: enable messaging-menu.
  * Debian changes:
    + Update package description (LP: #602815).

liferea (1.10.9-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ David Michael Smith ]
  * New upstream release [April 2014] (Closes: #744887)
  * Add depends on dbus-x11 (Closes: #748087)
  * Remove recommends on dbus, dbus-x11 since it now depends on dbus-x11.
  * Update package description to remove features no longer supported and
    make it easier to understand. (Closes: #745842)

  [ Paul Gevers ]
  * Bump standards to 3.9.5 (no changes)
 -- Mattia Rizzolo <email address hidden> Mon, 30 Jun 2014 15:04:21 +0200