[ghns] Back from Spain

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Wednesday 22 February 2006 06:19, Josef Spillner wrote:
> Someone, who is now also subscribed to this list (sorry, I forgot your
> name!) showed me the wallpaper subscription software which uses RSS feeds.
> We should see if this can be made compatible with GHNS feeds.
> Alternatively, the Hotstuff backend could export RSS feeds for this
> application. But then RSS feed support would have to be added to KNewStuff
> as well.

could the RSS feed not just be one possible format that GHNS could send back 
in response to requests? RSS is, IMHO, pretty underpowered for the majority 
of the applications GHNS would see. while the current GHNS in KDE3 is a 
slightly glorified RSS in a sense, even it has a lot more useful information 
and is more appropriate for the problems GHNS is meant to address. 

so i'm not sure if KNewStuff would need to support RSS (i wonder what that 
would do to the API, actually, when juxtaposed with the more robust GHNS 
service?) as long as GHNS would also make available the XML data stream.

i suppose an upside to supporting RSS in KNewStuff is that it would enable KDE 
apps to use RSS feeds via KNewStuff; just not so sure how useful that is 
versus the impact on KNewStuff?

> Is this applet already part of GNOME or is it planned to become so?

IIRC it's already there in the backgrounds control panel in GNOME.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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