Since Liferea under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) on the Basis of the free library of GTK+ has been developed, the program is available for many Linux packages (distributions) - currently available for Feed formats RSS/RDF, CDF, Atom, and OPML. Besides, it supports Podcasting.
Liferea is in the imperative programming language C programmed and used no Interpretersprachen. As a GTK application, it fits well with the GNOME desktop environment. And as a free program, it may by anyone for any purpose used, studied, modified and redistributed.
Built-In Web Browser
To read the linked article or blog comments easier, Liferea a built-in HTML Browser for Loading sites. Except Firefox/XulRunner or GtkHTML, the user can do this numerous other external Browserprogramme to Open Links: Mozilla, Firefox, Netscape, Opera, Epiphany, Konqueror.Thanks to News Feed Subscription extension by a Website Feeds offered in Epiphany selectively Liferea add. Also, Firefox 1.5+ has such an extension. For Firefox 2.0+ is: Who in their Firefox settings to Liferea the script "liferea-add feed" configured, even without any special extension.
The functionality of the browser, however, is rather Spartan. Except for the address bar, it allows only in the History before and to go back or the Tab to close it. A useful Feature is the Creation of Bookmarks to external providers so-called Social Bookmarking Services.
Many useful features
Liferea is mainly characterized by the following, very useful functions: Individual Feed settings (number of holender messages, Cache), simple organization in folders, News Bins (Archive of messages), search folders (with a permanent search and all the headlines of all subscriptions), import, Integration of Mozilla, Tab Browsing, HTTP authentication, Download and play Audio and Video attachments, and Tray Icon.Installation and configuration
Liferea is simply the sources installed. These are the packages Liferea and - if the program in combination with Firefox should be used - firefox-gnome-support is required. Then appears in the GNOME menu under "applications" an application launcher with access to the Internet and to Liferea feed reader.to Download
Website liferea.sourceforge.net Since Liferea already some subscriptions to bring the User gets when you first Start the first impression of this program. He has, first, the usual three-view: on the left of the hierarchically arranged subscription right on top of the headlines of the selected Feed, right below the message body. For each subscription-configurable "view" offers even more possibilities, however, the Clarity can affect. The "Close" Button does not close about the program, but only the window. With a click on the notifications panel, the GNOME-panel of the Tray Icon, it can, on request, to restore or to hide.In the left column of the Abonnementsübersicht can be anywhere by right-clicking the new subscription and folders, create, modify, reorder, or delete. These functions are available via the menu on the "subscriptions".
The global setting to the setting is under "Tools/options". Who for individual subscriptions, differing values want to set, you can do this by right-clicking on the subscription under "properties". The access to a Feed by a Login is blocked, he can also specify the access data.
To read the Feeds
Since Liferea Feed subscriptions in different folders stores, the User can easily access the headlines access. And because the program with the appropriate configuration, only the unread headlines in a category, it knows immediately, which is new for him.With the arrow keys or mouse, he goes to the headlines. In the message window, he sees, depending on Feed - in addition to the headline, the entire message is a part of, or nothing at all. The window shows the message is not, or not fully, it downloads by double-clicking on the headline or by Pressing the Reload button the full site.
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Liferea to install and use
By
David Amoyal
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Wednesday, April 30, 2014
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