Now available for testing in Fedora Rawhide

Jul 25, 2015 02:10 GMT  ·  By

On July 24, Igor Gnatenko was more than proud to publish some details about his upcoming news reader app for the highly acclaimed GNOME desktop environment, called GNOME News.

The GNOME News app is written entirely in the Python dynamic programming language that makes use of the latest GTK+ 3 GUI toolkit, Tracker search engine, and WebKitGtk+ WebKit engine port to GTK+ technologies.

Prominent features include RSS autodiscovery, support for searching feed titles and text directly from the GNOME Shell interface, integration with the News component of ownCloud, as well as integration with Feedly, Google Activities, and Pocket.

Those of you who want to take the GNOME News app for a test drive right now and are running the latest Fedora Linux distribution with the GNOME desktop environment, can do so by following the instructions provided by the devs below.

code
git clone https://github.com/ignatenkobrain/gnome-news
dnf install intltool autoconf-archive libappstream-glib-devel gobject-introspection-devel pygobject3 glib2-devel
cd gnome-news/
./autogen.sh && make -j4
./gnome-news
If not, make sure you watch the video below to see the GNOME News application in action, or view the attached screenshot. Also, you can grab the latest source code from GitHub or find out more details about the GNOME's new feed reader software on its homepage.