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Lycos-Qumana RSS Reader only shows the feeds that have new articles in the newspaper. Therefore, if a feed does not have something new, it won’t appear in the newspaper. However, all feeds are always displayed in the “Customize” view.
This behavior is especially useful for quick reading of the newspaper when you have many news feeds.
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Lycos-Qumana RSS Reader is not based on the traditional email like metaphor. We believe reading RSS feeds is not like reading emails and so, managing read and unread status of individual articles is a waste of time. We see RSS as a flow of new information where the past has little value except for reference purposes.
To quote the inventor of RSS, Dave Winer:
“Let the river of items flow through your queue, scroll over them with a scroll bar, and don't let the software tell you you're falling behind. Your time is what's valuable, there's no value to the items you didn't read. If it's important it'll pop up again. RSS is not email. Don't sort them out into little boxes that you have to go to, make them flow to you, in a river, unsorted. I wish people would just listen to this simple idea, so many people are using RSS the wrong way”
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In the current release unfortunately no. Please note however that you can reorder freely feeds and groups. That custom ordering is always respected in all Lycos-Qumana RSS Reader views such as the full newspaper and search bookmarks.
We plan to add a lot of more display options in the next version.
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Aggregation
Make sure that your firewall is configured to allow “lektora.exe” process traffic.
Please note that Lycos-Qumana RSS Reader is not currently compatible with ZoneAlarm. It is an issue we are currently investigating.
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Not in the current version. This is a planned feature.
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Archives
You can clean up the archives by deleting the daily archive folders located at the following location:
Windows
C:\Documents and Settings\Your user name\Application Data\lektoraData (make sure you can see hidden folders in Windows Explorer)
Mac
In a new Finder window, in your home, go in Library, Application Support, Lycos-Qumana RSS ReaderData.
Linux
In your home directory, .lektoraData hidden directory.
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Firefox
You can move the two Lycos-Qumana RSS Reader buttons on the main toolbar. In Firefox, View menu, Toolbars, Customize item.
Then, drag the two Lycos-Qumana RSS Reader buttons on the main toolbar.
You can then uncheck the Lycos-Qumana RSS Reader toolbar item in the View menu, Toolbars.
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Installation
In Internet Explorer, menu View, Toolbars item, there should be an item named “Lycos-Qumana RSS Reader”.
If you see the Lycos-Qumana RSS Reader item, try to check and uncheck it multiple times to show the Lycos-Qumana RSS Reader toolbar.
If you do not see the Lycos-Qumana RSS Reader item, Lycos-Qumana RSS Reader is not installed correctly. You can try reinstalling Lycos-Qumana RSS Reader.
Note that some spyware programs disable competitive toolbars. It is a very good idea to try cleaning your system with a spyware removal tool if the Lycos-Qumana RSS Reader toolbar does not appear.
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In Firefox, Tools menu, Extensions item, you should see Lycos-Qumana RSS Reader listed.
If the Lycos-Qumana RSS Reader extension is not listed, you can force the Lycos-Qumana RSS Reader extension installation.
Windows
In the Start menu, item Lycos-Qumana RSS Reader, then sub item Lycos-Qumana RSS Reader. It will open the Lycos-Qumana RSS Reader welcome page. At the bottom of that page in red, you can force the Lycos-Qumana RSS Reader extension installation. Restart Firefox and you should have the Lycos-Qumana RSS Reader toolbar.
Mac
In the Applications folder, open Lycos-Qumana RSS Reader. This will open the Lycos-Qumana RSS Reader welcome page in Firefox. At the bottom of that page in red, you can force the Lycos-Qumana RSS Reader extension installation. Restart Firefox and you should have the Lycos-Qumana RSS Reader toolbar.
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Unfortunately, upgrading to Firefox 1.0.1/1.0.2 breaks Lycos-Qumana RSS Reader.
- After upgrading to Firefox 1.0.1 or 1.0.2, go in the Tools menu, Extensions.
- Click on Lycos-Qumana RSS Reader and click the “Uninstall” button.
- Close Firefox and open it again and go in the Tools menu, Extensions. Lycos-Qumana RSS Reader should not be listed now.
- Close Firefox and reinstall Lycos-Qumana RSS Reader with the latest setup.
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Unfortunately, Lycos-Qumana RSS Reader requires IE 6 even though it works with Firefox. The reason is that Lycos-Qumana RSS Reader installs on both IE and Firefox and some components are shared.
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Uninstall
In the Start menu, item Lycos-Qumana RSS Reader, there is the Lycos-Qumana RSS Reader uninstaller.
If you are using Firefox, please read the following FAQ entry to remove the Lycos-Qumana RSS Reader toolbar from Firefox.
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Unfortunately, Firefox does not have the capability to uninstall extensions from an uninstaller.
So, after uninstalling Lycos-Qumana RSS Reader with the Lycos-Qumana RSS Reader uninstaller, you have to manually uninstall the Lycos-Qumana RSS Reader extension.
To do that, open Firefox, Tools menu, Extensions item. Click on Lycos-Qumana RSS Reader and then on the Uninstall button. Restart Firefox and the Lycos-Qumana RSS Reader toolbar should be gone.
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Unfortunately, the Apple installer does not provide an uninstaller. So, you have to manually delete Lycos-Qumana RSS Reader files.
First in Firefox, Tools menu, Extensions item. Click on Lycos-Qumana RSS Reader and then on the Uninstall button. Restart Firefox and and verify that the Lycos-Qumana RSS Reader toolbar is gone.
Then, in the Finder, go in your main hard drive, Library, Application Support. Move to the trash the Lycos-Qumana RSS Reader folder.
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Foreign language support
Lycos-Qumana RSS Reader does not ship with all international encoding files by default. It only supports out of the box Unicode and ISO-Latin-1.
For other encodings, download this encoding extension pack here. Then, place all the .enc files in your lektora\expatenc folder.
Windows
C:\Program Files\lektora\expatenc
Mac
/Library/Application Support/lektora/expatenc
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Linux
Lycos-Qumana RSS Reader for Linux was tested and compiled on Fedora Core 3. It was also tested successfully on Ubuntu Linux.
Make sure you have a recent glibc and libstdc++v3 installed on your system. Also, you must have a working Firefox 1.0 installation.
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Yes, you can define the environment variable lektora_PATH before launching Firefox.
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