Using RSS

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--Chris Lale 10:38, 24 January 2006 (CET)

RSS (Rich Site Summary) is an XML document provided by a link on a website which can be read by a feed reader. It provides up-to-date information about certain pages on the site.

NewbieDOC RSS feed for the Recent changes page enables you to monitor the NewbieDOC wiki straight from your desktop.

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1 Do it in 5 seconds

The trivial way to read RSS (small online news) is to just run thunderbird (email client) or opera or firefox / iceweasel (www clients) and add there a new RSS feed. In thunderbird you do it as a new account, in firefox/iceweasel by adding a new bookmark called Live Bookmark. --LimCore 04:17, 5 March 2007 (CET)

2 Liferea

Liferea is a GTK/GNOME aggregator for online news feeds (Linux feed reader). There is more information, including documentation, at http://liferea.sourceforge.net.

2.1 Installing Liferea

The liferea package is included in the Debian distribution. Install it using Synaptic in X, or from the commandline as user root:

# aptitude install liferea

2.2 Setting up Liferea for NewbieDOC

Run Liferea. (If you are using Gnome, use the Applications menu):

Applications -> Internet -> Liferea Feed Reader

Configure Liferea. You can copy the Source: URL from the rss link in the toolbox of the Recent changes page (Toolbox -> Special pages -> Recent pages, Toolbox -> rss):

Feeds -> New Subscription
   Feed Source
      Source Type: URL
      Source: http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&feed=rss
   OK

Wait, if necessary, until the next dialogue box appears, then

Subscription Properties

(Accept defaults)

OK

2.3 Reading the NewbieDOC feed

In the left-hand pane, click on the feed to read.

NewbieDOC - Recent changes [en]

The right-hand pane shows a list of NewbieDOC wiki pages. The first occurance of a new page shows the text of the edit page. Subsequent occurances should show diffs; a minus sign (-) indicates lines removed, a plus sign (+) indicates lines added. Bold indicates unread, normal font indicates read.

2.4 Getting the latest changes

Highlight the NewbieDOC feed. Update it using the menu

Feeds -> Update Selected

or right-click on NewbieDOC and click on

Update


You get a new unread feed. The older (read) versions also remain until you delete them.

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