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Misleading Information in Article "The Grumpy Editor's guide to RSS aggregators"

From:		Benjamin Pasero <benjamin.pasero-AT-web.de>
To:		lwn-AT-lwn.net
Subject:		Misleading Information in Article "The Grumpy Editor's guide to RSS aggregators"
Date:		Fri, 31 Mar 2006 08:43:08 +0200

Hello,
 
I am the author of RSSOwl, which was covered in the article:
 
The Grumpy Editor's guide to RSS aggregators
(http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/176028/1121c3a959871033/)
 
Reading the article it seems that the editor did not test RSSOwl
very well. Since the article is criticising the application,
I would have expected a carefully inquest. Maybe the editor is
new to writing articles? I am not sure. Anyways, here is the
problems I found:
 
- "...but it is not possible to mix articles from multiple feeds..."
  This is not true. You can select "Aggregate Favorites" from the
  contextual menu of a Category to mix all Feeds included into a
  single view.
 
- "...Opening a feed requires a double-click..."
  This can easily be changed in Preferences. The "Open Mode" allows
  to switch between Single- and Doubleclick. Its really easy to spot,
  since its the first page of preferences. I doubt the editor even
  had a look to preferences
 
Regarding Performance: The editor should try how fast Eclipse is running
and compare that with RSSOwl. It would be interesting to know if both
run slow, then its most likely a problem of an old GCJ version. Both
applications share the same GUI-library. The GTK version would be
interesting
as well.
 
Best regards,
Ben

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