aKregator in CVS

[George Staikos]

   It's time to move aKregator into distribution.  For those who haven't used 
it, it's a news feed aggregator for KDE.  See 
http://akregator.sourceforge.net/

   It has nice KDE integration too, with a Konqueror plugin that detects RSS 
feeds and allows you to automatically add the feeds into aKregator, and a 
Kontact plugin (which IMHO is by far the best way to operate!).  The code is 
quite polished and stable, and it will make a nice new feature for KDE 3.4.  
The bug list is quite short (<= 30 wishes+bugs, and generally they're fixed 
quickly), there are several active developers, and the code is well 
maintained.

   Moving it into kdepim was suggested because of the nature of integrating 
such things in Kontact.  This apparently wasn't too well accepted, so we have 
to split it up across various modules.  Then again, librss dependency could 
make kdenetwork better.  I propose:
application: in kdenetwork
konq plugin: in kdenetwork or kdeaddons
kontact plugin: in kdepim
librss: in kdenetwork

   Any comments?

   Furthermore, akregator uses its own librss right now because various bug 
fixes have been applied.  However I'm sure that there are fixes in 
kdenetwork/librss that aren't in akregator's too.  I think these fixes need 
to be merged somehow.

   Finally, knewsticker and akregator solve the same problem from two 
different approaches, but I think akregator is much more useful on a 
day-to-day basis for people who use RSS heavily.  I know it's -far- more 
efficient for me.  However there are requests to share the feed lists between 
apps.  The problem I have is dcoprss.  I am -really- annoyed at having to 
constantly kill stray processes 
( http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68905 ), and I'm also not convinced 
about how well dcoprss would match with akregator's design yet (I have found 
knewsticker to be very unreliable due to the dcop service, but akregator to 
be rock-solid).  I think there should be a strong effort to merge these 
backends or make them compatible somehow.

   Barring any major concerns, and assuming a final "yes" from the active 
akregator developers[1], I'll ask admins to move it by the end of this week.

Thanks!

[1]: need to figure out when to do the final independent release before it 
becomes a first-class KDE citizen.

-- 
George Staikos
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