Jeff Bounds' Weblog The Grove

Tuesday Jun 29, 2004

Now for some real content. How to use Evolution as a RSS Reader. If you are familiar with the Summary page in Evolution then you are looking at a RSS Reader! To add an existing feed that Evolution knows about go to Tools -> Settings -> Summary Preferences -> News Feeds. There evolution will have a list of feeds. Select a feed then ADD it. To add a new feed go to Tools -> Settings -> Summary Preferences -> News Feeds -> New Feed. It will ask for a Name and a URL for the feed. I'm sure Evolution stores this list somewhere, but for the life of me I have NO clue where! So for the time being you Vi experts will just have to suffer using the gui.
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The bas think (as far as I know) there will be no support for rss reader in evolution 2

Posted by Jan Matis on June 29, 2004 at 11:13 PM EDT #

Thanks for the tip! Here's an addendum for the script kids. The URL's are stored in the gconf configuration database. Here is an example command:
 gconftool-2 --set /apps/evolution/summary/rdf/uris --type=list --list-type=string "[http://blogs.sun.com/roller/rss/bounds,http://blogs.sun.com/roller/rss/bnitz]"
To restore defaults:
gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/evolution/summary/rdf/uris

This version of evoulution requires a restart to pickup new parameters such as this (most GNOME Java Desktop System applications can be configured on the fly.)

Posted by bnitz on September 14, 2004 at 12:58 PM EDT #

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