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brss 0.8.14 (experimental)
Offline DBus RSS reader

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version 0.8.14 on Aug 1st, 2011

BRss is an 'offline' RSS reader written in Python. It is a complete rewrite of another python RSS reader (Naufrago!), based on the concept of service/client. It uses the dbus library to enable communication between the service and clients.

Features:

BRss consists of two applications:

1. brss-engine brss-engine is a dbus service. Its main features are:

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  • periodically downloads feed articles, with their images
  • notify on updates
  • transparently replaces remote image tags on article request.
  • search articles

2. brss-reader brss-reader is a GTK+ client for brss-engine.

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  • Connects to brss-engine
  • Keyboard feed and article navigation (à la Thunderbird)
  • full-screen article viewing
  • Article search engine

INSTALL:

Reminder: BRss is still "alpha" software. Use at your own risks.

BRss requires the following python modules to run.

python-gobject python-feedparser python-sqlite3 python-dbus

How to install this modules may vary depending on your distribution. In Archlinux run the following command as root:

# pacman -S dbus-python pygobject python2-feedparser python-pysqlite gtk3
libwebkit3 libnotify gcc gettext glib2
  1. Extract the archive

$ tar zxf brss-0.8.14.tar.gz $ cd brss-0.8.14

  1. Install

$ sudo python setup.py install

  1. Compile the schema folder

$ sudo glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/

TODO:

The following are planned, in no particular order:

  • Provide a proper install script.
  • Documentation
  • Gnome3 design guidelines compliance
  • Better logo and pixmaps
  • CLI interface
  • DnD feed recategorizing

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Last updated Aug 1st, 2011

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