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On Thunderbird for example, there's no way to aggregate feeds from different places, into just one common view. I'm looking for aggregating all feeds from different places into a common view, where I can globally just keep what I want to read from everywhere and remove what I'm not interested on.

Notice just the view needs to be joint, and one can remove stuff from the joint view, but in reality one would be removing stuff from each feeds provider.

Not sure if such client is available for gnu+linux, and hopefully a GTK one.

Edit: Trying newsflash. At the beginning I didn't want to try webkitgtk based packages, since it was supposed to be insecure, however stock packages are depending on it, so I guess there's no much trouble now a days. webkit2gtk was the safe bet that I remember. So considering this query as solved for now, :) Many thanks to all.

Edit 2: On TB I can remove feeds I don't want to keep, which rss readers can do that? On newsflash at least I don't see a way to remove stuff. So for sure that'll consume a lot of space depending on the amount of articles. Or am I missing something?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Feedbro installed as Firefox/Chrome plugin is a great app as cross patform RSS reader.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not sure I understand... I thought all readers did this.

Doesn't liferea do it? (It's also gtk iirc)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, Thunderbird doesn't, so I couldn't tell if all others were the same, :(

Thanks !

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You're welcome!

Had no idea that thunderbird didn't do it, sounds like a pretty basic feature to me.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Liferea has "search folders" that let you define conditions for which stories/feeds show up in them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Android: Feeder

Selfhosted: Nextcloud news

Lots of more apps, search on Flathub or F-Droid

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Android App for Nextcloud News synchronisation

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

As usual, I'll swing by to say Newsboat even though it is not really a GUI or GTK.

I aggregate all my YouTube subs into a single entry, for example. Very useful.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Check out Fluent Reader, it's the best looking and the most featureful RSS reader I know of on Linux. Does have a common view as well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I second Fluent Reader. I even did a video about it as I was pretty impressed with it for its full text retrieval. It has an articles view, as well as lots of good display options.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks, I'll keep it as a 2nd option, since it's Electron based.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For android: Feeder is just great For linux desktop: Newsboat

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

True. Feeder is a great app. Every morning, I wake up and have my coffee while reading my news feed via Feeder.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

What about Raven Reader? It's Electron, yet it didn't feel like an Electron app. I used it before switching to Newsflash. My only reason for switching was that Raven didn't work well with FreshRSS.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Akgregator works as described

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

akregator is unfortunately part of the kde-pim, requiring akonadi, and a bunch of kde deps, see for example:

% pacman -S akregator
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (92) accounts-qml-module-0.7-4  akonadi-contacts-23.08.0-1  akonadi-mime-23.08.0-1  akonadi-search-23.08.0-1  attica-5.109.0-1  grantlee-5.3.1-1
              grantleetheme-23.08.0-1  kaccounts-integration-23.08.0-1  kactivities-5.109.0-1  karchive-5.109.0-1  kauth-5.109.0-1  kbookmarks-5.109.0-1
              kcalendarcore-5.109.0-1  kcmutils-5.109.0-1  kcodecs-5.109.0-1  kcompletion-5.109.0-1  kconfig-5.109.0-1  kconfigwidgets-5.109.0-1
              kcontacts-1:5.109.0-1  kcoreaddons-5.109.0-1  kcrash-5.109.0-1  kdbusaddons-5.109.0-1  kdeclarative-5.109.0-1  kded-5.109.0-1
              kglobalaccel-5.109.0-1  kguiaddons-5.109.0-1  ki18n-5.109.0-1  kiconthemes-5.109.0-1  kidentitymanagement-23.08.0-1  kimap-23.08.0-1
              kio-5.109.0-2  kirigami2-5.109.0-1  kitemmodels-5.109.0-1  kitemviews-5.109.0-1  kjobwidgets-5.109.0-1  kldap-23.08.0-1  kmailtransport-23.08.0-1
              kmbox-23.08.0-1  kmime-23.08.0-1  knewstuff-5.109.0-1  knotifications-5.109.0-1  knotifyconfig-5.109.0-1  kontactinterface-23.08.0-1
              kpackage-5.109.0-1  kparts-5.109.0-1  kpimtextedit-23.08.0-1  krunner-5.109.0-1  kservice-5.109.0-1  ksmtp-23.08.0-1  ktextaddons-1.4.1-1
              ktextwidgets-5.109.0-1  kuserfeedback-1.2.0-1  kwallet-5.109.0-1  kwayland-5.109.0-1  kwidgetsaddons-5.109.0-1  kxmlgui-5.109.0-1
              libaccounts-glib-1.26-2  libaccounts-qt-1.16-3  libakonadi-23.08.0-1  libdbusmenu-qt5-0.9.3+16.04.20160218-6  libdmtx-0.7.7-1
              libgravatar-23.08.0-1  libkdepim-23.08.0-1  libkgapi-23.08.0-1  libkleo-23.08.0-1  messagelib-23.08.0-1  pimcommon-23.08.0-1
              plasma-framework-5.109.0-1  polkit-qt5-0.114.0-1  prison-5.109.0-1  purpose-5.109.0-1  qca-qt5-2.3.7-1  qt5-graphicaleffects-5.15.10-1
              qt5-location-5.15.10+kde+r4-2  qt5-quickcontrols-5.15.10-1  qt5-quickcontrols2-5.15.10+kde+r6-1  qt5-speech-5.15.10+kde+r1-1
              qt5-wayland-5.15.10+kde+r57-1  qt5-webchannel-5.15.10+kde+r3-1  qt5-webengine-5.15.14-5  qtkeychain-qt5-0.14.1-1
              signon-kwallet-extension-23.08.0-1  signon-plugin-oauth2-0.25-1  signon-ui-0.17+20171022-3  signond-8.61-1  solid-5.109.0-1  sonnet-5.109.0-1
              syndication-5.109.0-1  syntax-highlighting-5.109.0-1  threadweaver-5.109.0-1  xapian-core-1:1.4.23-1  akregator-23.08.0-1

I was hoping there's something which way less dependencies, hopefully GTK rather than Qt... At some point I wanted to use kmail and korganizer, also part of kde-pim, but besides korganizer never fixing a pretty old bug, the amount of deps I needed, plus the akonadi DB, made go back on that attempt. The same goes for akregator unfortunately...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's unfortunate. I can't think of a Gnu/Linux reader with as much functionality. Maybe you could try using self-hosted online readers like tiny rss

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Selfhosted: Miniflux Client cli: newsboat open browser links

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I am new to Linux and the concept of "rss",I have use fluent reader on Linux and feeder for Android to read news which support rss service.However,I still don't understand what is aggregator and why do I need it? The only thing I have done so far is copy the rss link and paste to my rss reader. Could anyone eli5 to me?