On 10 Jun 2002 13:52:38 +0100, Tim Phipps wrote: > > Have you heard of WMHeadlines? You can get it from > http://www.shutdown.com/~lestat/WMHeadlines . It has an awful lot of > headline sites but it lacks a filter to produce fvwm menus.
I was familar with the old one, I even got some ideas from it. :) % man fvwm-menu-headlines | grep WMHeadlines Just downloaded their latest version. Looks good, but I can't actually run it because my LWP has problems with making connections, no time to fix it. Advantanges of WMHeadlines vus fvwm-menu-headlines: * A lot of non computer news sites supported * Extensible site db configuration * Site db is stored in 122 external files, not inside the script Disadvantages of WMHeadlines: * Many non-working sites (non-existing anymore or changed format) * Non geek sites don't provide backends, so parsing whole real pages * Lacking scriptability in site db configuration * A need to manually install 129 files and some perl packages from CPAN. fvwm-menu-headlines should work as is, run it and report if not * No support for the publishing time for every single headline * No support for menu icons, no equivalent for 14 command line options * No support for MissingSubmenuFunction, they always do it in 2 stages, initially create a file using 2 scripts, then load a menu from a file The last 3 disadvantages make a merging impossible, it's just easier to add some interesting sites to fvwm-menu-headlines. Not urgent though. Regards, Mikhael. -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]