Trying Out Akregator

OK. I've just now tried
Akregator for the first
time. Akregator is my first
RSS feed aggregator.

I find that I don't yet have
to sign up for any feeds.
Akregator seems to come with
some feeds pre-installed.

In general, the pre-installed
feeds are Akregator and
KDE relevant. These are feeds
that it is assumed you might
be interested in.

After reading some of these
feeds, I already see that
partial feeds are a better
idea than I thought they
were in my last post.

I can now see that reading
half the feed is actually a
pretty good idea and then
finishing it in its original
form elsewhere works well too.

Seems that this is a time-
saver as it enables the
reader to decide how deeply
they'd like to go into the
post or article before making
a bigger commitment.

I may be assuming too much
here. I'm assuming that the
partial nature of the feed is
from the feed itself.

I suppose that truncating the feed
could also be a function of Akregator
itself. I haven't figured this out
yet.

In any case, you can click to
see the whole feed. The whole
feed will then appear in whole
form at its original URL.

If I right-click in Akregator, I
find I can ask to see the source
of the feed as a web page in my
browser.

In other words, I'm not looking at
the feed. I'm now looking at the
source of the feed, the original
writing on a web page or blog.

So far, I've found 3 ways to view
a feed in Akregator:

1. As text inside
   of Akregator
2. As a web page
   inside of Akregator
3. As a web page in
   the default browser

You get the view of the
feed as text by default
in Akregator.

You get the view of the
feed as a web page inside
of Akregator by clicking
on Complete Story
at the bottom of the feed.

You get the view of the feed
as a web page in the default
browser by right-clicking on
the web page view of the feed
within Akregator.

Seems to me that this is a
cascading order of viewing the
feed. Here's the order in
which you would naturally view
a feed:

1. First you see the feed
   as text within Akregator
2. Next, should you click on
   the Complete Story, you
   see the feed as a web page
   within Akregator
3. Next, you can take this
   one step further and right
   click to get the feed to
   appear in the default browser

OK. Starting to see how this
all works.

Ed Abbott