That idea has changed when 1.5.x (unstable) was released. New libraries are needed, making building process a little bit harder than 1.4.x. In 1.5.6, there was a big change on the HTML rendering engine. They have dropped Mozilla/Gecko/XulRunner support which was used until 1.5.5 and turn to WebKit. I don't know why, but it works and they changed it just like that. I know WebKit is also a good rendering engine, but in most RSS feeds, the layout are mostly very simple and plain. It's being focused on the content itself.
In order to compile the latest version, i had to compile webkit and all it's dependencies first, then i can install Liferea. It's a pain in the past, but i have managed to install webkit and now Liferea is lurking back again on my system
I like liferea, it seems to work well as a GTK RSS reader. However the biggest problem is the inclusion of GConf and ORBit2.
ReplyDeleteIt just "leaves a mess" in my /tmp (yes, I am that OCPD about things). plus I feel it's fairly obtrusive (this might just be a personal opinion and not based on facts at all), that once it is installed a lot of things tend to jump in on it.
I might give it another run in the future :)
yeah, GConf and ORBit2 is a mess, but luckily, there's a SlackBuild script on SlackBuilds.org which really helped me on installing that packages in order to satisfy the dependencies
ReplyDeletei have just upgraded to 1.5.8 and it's working fine here :)