Straw is a desktop feed reader used for reading news, blogs, “planets”, etc… within the GNOME desktop environment. More info about the project as well as contributing can be found in our project site at http://www.gnome.org/projects/straw”.
We also have a wiki for collaboration, ideas, etc… Feel free to read and make a comment on our (future) direction, goals, etc… at http://live.gnome.org/Straw.
February 17, 2009 at 4:01 pm |
I am a build manager and we use Hudson as our continuous build engine. Hudson, like most continuous build engines, offers a variety of RSS feeds for monitoring builds.
On Windows systems, you have RSS readers like Alert Bear that operate out of the Windows System Tray and display new RSS feeds as they come in.
I was looking for a similar tool for the Gnome Desktop, and found Straw. Straw doesn’t quite do what I want, but I noticed that there is a Bugzilla Issue #535040 that is almost the type of feature I’d be looking for.
What is missing from this feature is the ability to briefly flash the RSS feeds as they come in and a way to display recent RSS feeds without opening Straw itself. Both of these features are found in the Mail Notification tool that is on the Gnome desktop.
I would have put my comments directly into Bugzilla, but I didn’t want to create an account just for this one request.
September 4, 2009 at 12:05 pm |
where is the screen shots ?