Zocalo Web Feed Reader (sharp Rom) Options

[koan]

Hi

Zocalo is a lightweight web feed reader for the Sharp ROM. It is designed for the PDA form factor, i.e. make sensible use of a small screen, use keyboard or stylus to navigate everything, don't use a lot of memory or disk space. It can handle RSS, RSS RDF and Atom.

I have been testing Zocalo for a few months now and it seems stable. There are a few minor issues that I want to improve in future releases and I have a lot of ideas for features that I want to implement. I plan to port to the other Zaurus Linuxes.

Please find more details at the Zocalo web page.

This image is linked to a screenshot of the latest version on my website:

[koan]

Finally, I am pleased to announce version 1.8 is now available.

After a lengthy period of bug chasing I have determined that the reason for the program not running in all orientations is somehow due to QPEToolBar/QPEMenuBar. This is bizarre, it certainly worked fine in all previous versions of Zocalo and I was using what I thought was a legal method. I have now changed to a different method of mixing toolbar and menus and it seems to work fine.

You can now use the Cancel button to navigate views, as was requested previously. You can "enter" views with the OK button and "exit" them with Cancel or by the old method of pressing and holding OK. If you press Cancel on the Feeds view you will exit the program.

I located and removed some memory leaks as well as other bugs and errant behaviours so I strongly recommend installing this new version.

Finally, anyone using Zocalo to follow a password protected Twitter timeline will have found that it doesn't work any more. Twitter have now changed to OAuth, http://blog.twitter.com/2010/08/twitter-ap...-and-oauth.html I am sure that cURL will support OAuth soon, when it does I will make a new cURL ipk and Twitter support will then be available again.

[xamindar]

Great! Thank you! It seems to work great now. Will open in landscape and portrait mode for me now.

You can "enter" views with the OK button

Just a note, this has never worked for me. It's not really a big deal because I can just tap on the feed anyway. Just letting you know. Holding down the OK button does still exit a feed though as well as the cancel button you just addeed in. Thanks.