Akregator in freeze for KDE-PIM 3.5
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 
(gotta update the changelog though).
From october on I will have more time for KDE and Akregator again, so stay tuned 
on September 8th, 2005 at 6:41 pm
I love akregator. It is my only news source. I am just grateful it works as well as it does. Anything new and improved is icing on the cake. Thanks for such great work.
on December 7th, 2005 at 5:28 am
Mark, I second that! aKregator is already great as it is but being able to use it as a podcatching client will be great.
Ciao
Fabio.
on April 4th, 2006 at 8:20 am
what should be fixed is that akregator does not automatically start with kontact …
on April 4th, 2006 at 11:39 am
> what should be fixed is that akregator does not automatically start with
> kontact…
It’s not possible and will not be possible in the 3.5 series to get the fetching going without loading the whole akregator kpart and feed archive.
And loading the part is not an option as it would slow down kontact startup significantly.
If we get a desktop-wide “feedservice” managing feed fetching and archiving ready, this problem will get solved for KDE4.