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How to re-enable tagging

Posted in General by Frank Osterfeld on the September 8th, 2005

As mentioned in the last entry, tagging functionality wasn’t finished in time and the UI isn’t yet in a state I want it to be released. So I disabled the vertical “Tags” tab and the “set tags” action by default, adding a hidden config option. If you are using Akregator from SVN, you might have used tagging already and don’t want to lose your tags. You can re-enable the tagging UI elements by editing $KDEHOME/share/config/akregatorrc. Add the following:


[Advanced]
Show Tagging GUI=true

When you start Akregator for the next time, “My Tags” tab and the tagging menu should reappear.

Akregator in freeze for KDE-PIM 3.5

Posted in General by Frank Osterfeld on the September 8th, 2005

Akregator is in feature and string freeze for KDE-PIM 3.5 now. Unfortunately I haven’t had any time for Akregator development lately and nobody else stepped in, so many features I created buzz about aren’t in there: Tagging functionality (in particular the UI) wasn’t finished in time, so I had to disable it. Same goes for enclosure support: No podcasts in 3.5.
I hope there will be a KDE-PIM 3.6, so can we bring some of the features to our users before KDE4.

So what can you expect for Akregator in 3.5? Vastly improved startup times when you have many feeds, and better performance in general (e.g. selecting “All Feeds” is safe now) . There is an optional text-to-speech toolbar you can use to let the computer speak selected articles. Apart from that, there are several little features and improvements I won’t list in detail now :-P (gotta update the changelog though).

From october on I will have more time for KDE and Akregator again, so stay tuned ;-)