Through the kindness of Daniel Hertrich who gave me a copy of weeXpc and the generosity of Martin Doege, developer of NewsFeed, I now have a functional rss reader for these modern times.
NewsFeed needs the full python 2.4, python-crypto, python-tk, tcl, and tk.
These instructions help, too:
https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=8177When I queried Martin about the display difficulties of NewsFeed on the Zaurus, he rewrote the newsfeed.py to accommodate our tiny screens:
1) pressing f brings the feed to a full window, pressing f again returns to the main gui
2) the feed text is now bold-ed
3) since the gui is slower to update than in console, update-at-start has been disabled. A much faster manner of updating is "./update_feeds.py" in console, then open NewsFeed with "./newsfeed"
4) because tk/tcl for Z doesn't seem to process certain unicodes (i.e. smart quotes), NewsFeed now defaults to straight quotes
For NewsFeed installation, first download NewsFeed v2.13.1 from here:
https://mdoege.github.io/3NewsFeed/#dThen download the Z-specific file, newsfeed.py, from here:
https://github.com/mdoege/NewsFeed-singleand overwrite the original newsfeed.py
I use fivefilter's premium full-text rss retriever--9 sites with 10 full-text feeds each. Via usb ethernet, it takes about 3 minutes for complete downloading. Via IrDA (Nokia 9300, gprs), it takes about 6 minutes. Slow but much faster and more stable than browsing, and NewsFeed allow off-line viewing.
I could not find a compiled tk/tcl that played nice with ttf fonts. So at this point, NewsFeed is stuck with the Z's "fixed" font, which means the font of the first two windows can't be adjusted, so it remains small.
Martin's python scripting will allow font adjustment for the entire gui, but he needs better tk/tcl. Are there better tk/tcl compilations out there? Right now, I'm using v8.4.6
At any rate, Daniel's kindness and Martin's unstinting help have produced a true rss reader, something that has not been often available for pdaXrom.
Jake