The Rss/Atom/Whatever News Feed Format extension guide

User Guide

1. Enable the extension using the Extension manager
2. Browse the Interweb
3. When you are viewing a site that has a feed:
   • An icon appear in the bottom left in the statusbar
   • The menu item becomes active in the Tools menu
4. Click on one of these, a dialog appears showing the feeds (title, url)
   • You can right-click and copy the selected feed url. Then paste it in any feed reader.

   • If you are using Straw or Liferea >= 0.95 simply click subscribe, the selected feeds will be registered automagically !

   • Blam will soon be supported once they merge the patch gnomebug:171911 into their CVS

Developer Guide

If you want to provide a way for users to add feeds automatically to your feed reader, here are the dbus specs to implement.

• The service name is: org.gnome.feed.Reader

• You must create a dbus object at path: /org/gnome/feed/Reader

• This object should implement dbus interface: org.gnome.feed.Reader

• It provides a method with signature (case is important): bool Subscribe (string url)

  • The passed url is as found in the rel="url" attribute in the page.

  • You must return TRUE if the feed has been successfully added or FALSE if the feed could not be registered.