bluemist posted about reading feeds not too long ago, and I commented about using RSSOwl. The feature bluemist is looking for is simple, Search Folders on feed groups, which could be done on the server level; Animeblogger Antenna, but it is much simpler to do this on the client, where they are going to aggregate the feeds anyway.
I wasn’t positive of this feature in RSSOwl, but it is there, and highly customizable; highly (I searched for loli within specific folders, and found 12 results). To my disbelief, RSSOwl also now includes a feature which it lacked for so long, and which I stated was a drawback on bluemist’s blog, and that was item retention. RSSOwl does retain feeds! It does! I found this out while playing with Miletstone 8; I believe this was included in all milestone versions. So there is no need to worry about losing articles waiting to be read.
vs Liferea
Liferea is a lightweight, GTK+ reader that accomplishes these things will much greater simplicity than RSSOwl. Though I have literally just installed it, it seems very dependable and similar to the simplicity of SharpReader. Even though the search folders option of Liferea is not as extensive, I believe it would do the above job perfectly. At this time, the only drawback is that a Windows install may not be streamlined.
Until Liferea is confirmed for builds on Windows, I will maintain my suggestion of RSSOwl, as I test Liferea.
Ryan A
