Re: KDE Goes Wayland

From	"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: KDE Goes Wayland
Date	2025-12-19 21:46 +0100
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On 2025-12-18 15:27, vallor wrote:
> At Thu, 18 Dec 2025 14:49:30 +0100, "Carlos E.R."
> <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> On 2025-12-17 05:42, vallor wrote:
>>> At Tue, 16 Dec 2025 09:57:02 -0500, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2025-12-15 10:41 p.m., vallor wrote:
>>>>> At Mon, 15 Dec 2025 18:16:03 -0600, chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid>
>>>>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>> My experiment with this was to write a newsreader with
>>>>> the help of ChatGPT, in Tk/perl.  It works.
>>>>
>>>> Is it better than Pan?
>>>
>>> Right now, Pan is better, I'd say.
>>>
>>> But newscamel has one feature that I don't think many newsreaders
>>> have, which is recording "read" (red) articles by Message-ID.
>>>
>>> That way, no matter which news server you switch to,
>>> it will accurately indicate read articles.
>>>
>>> I'm thinking maybe I should go back to Pan, and add that feature.
>>> Issue there is I'm not as strong with C++ as I am with C or perl.
>>
>> There is a way in Linux to do that with any reader.
>>
>> I use "leafnode", an nntp proxy server. It is it who connects to the
>> upstream news servers, one or several. But your client only connects
>> to the local leafnode.
> 
> That works -- except with the default configuration, you
> can't take part in "banter" threads, where replies are a few
> minutes apart.

In that case, I call

   sudo -u news /usr/sbin/fetchnews -v

manually.

> 
> But...hmm.  There shouldn't be any reason why the cronjob
> can't fire off (say) every 5 minutes to top off fresh news...though,
> that might be wasteful of resources when you're not reading.

You could use a systemd timer, and enable/disable it when needed :-)

Or have a cronjob that checks a flag file. I have this.


> 
> (I seem to remember that leafnode has a killfile function -- or
> does it?)

killfile? Dunno :-?

> 
> In any event, once I have the bugs ironed out of the newsgroup
> tree browser, I'll put this on my github for anyone who wants
> a perl-based newsreader.  (Development stagnated for a few weeks.)
> 

:-)

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.
ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;

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                Re: KDE Goes Wayland "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-12-18 14:49 +0100
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