Nibbles 0.1 released
April 2nd, 2008
I'm pleased to say that I've just released version 0.1 of Nibbles, an alternative RSS and Atom feed reader for Maemo. A big thanks to the people who were kind enough to help out with the pre-release testing, you've been (and hopefully continue to be!) a great help.
Nibbles is quite stable, can parse a wide variety of feeds and is pretty bandwidth efficient. Nibbles is finger-friendly and does aim to be a good mobile feed reader, but things like downloading of full offline articles didn't make it into this initial release (I have some working code for that, but it's not working enough!). New users might want to know that the zoom in/out hardware buttons hide and show the feed and article lists.
Of course, since this is a first release, things aren't perfect. The biggest problem for me that I think people should be aware of is that Nibbles uses too much battery power. This is detailed in bug #2342 and is really a problem with ruby-gtk2 rather than Nibbles. As I said, with some luck, the next ruby-gtk2 release will fix this.
You can install Nibbles from the project page.
April 2nd, 2008 at 05:27 PM It looks very nice. Any plans for a feature like "Google reader sync"? I'm crying without it :((
April 3rd, 2008 at 12:13 AM Looks good!
April 3rd, 2008 at 10:57 AM "Any plans for a feature like "Google reader sync"?" Not at the moment, but only becuase there is a lot of other stuff to do! I'll add a feature request to the tracker for it though.
April 3rd, 2008 at 09:41 PM Installation aborts with "unable to install" error. Nibbles is listed in "Installed Applications" but marked with an exclamation mark... Any Ideas how to fix this? Thanks in advance
April 4th, 2008 at 11:15 AM This sounds like bug #2183 (https://garage.maemo.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2183&group_id=569&atid=2150). Can you try the things listed there and let me know how you get on, please? I'm still none the wiser about why this happens occasionally!
April 4th, 2008 at 03:43 PM After installing ruby1.8-maemo and ruby1.8-sqlite3 manually I was able to install nibbles via .install. Thanks a lot PS: Great App :P
April 5th, 2008 at 08:56 AM Hi, This RSS manager have a good future, but must be fixed about some unestability and features. Good job.
May 5th, 2008 at 01:51 AM I tried to install this yesterday but it ate my cat :(
June 12th, 2008 at 10:16 AM I have been using Nibbles a my default reader for several weeks now - awesome, and MUCH faster than the nokia one. Thank you! Will link support be coming soon?