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Re: Annoyance in Opera built-in news-reader.

Subject: Re: Annoyance in Opera built-in news-reader.
From: Blinky the Shark
Date: 2 Oct 2005 02:37:03 GMT
Newsgroups: opera.general
Brian L Johnson wrote:
> Blinky the Shark wrote:
>
>>> Well, it shouldn't *need* it. Tell you what... can you go to <URL:
>>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/ > and, at the right-hand end of the URL bar, look
>>> for a small blue RSS icon.[1]  See it?  Click it.  M2 should ask you
>>> whether you want to subscribe to yada yada yada. Click 'Yes'[2]
>>>
>>> TBH I can't remember what happens next, but if I were writing the code,
>>
>> A new tab opens, with two panes that look the same as if I were reading
>> Usenet,
>
> That's good. :)
>
>> except that they're empty.
>
> That's bad. :(

Life's like that, innit?  :)

> Okay, I've just done a new clean install and, without doing anything else,  
> typed in 'http://news.bbc.co.uk/' and clicked the RSS icon. "Do you want  
> to subscribe to yada yada" Clicked Yes.
>
> Two panes open up, and the top one fills up with 30 articles from the  
> Beeb. The bottom pane shows the first article. Exactly as it's supposed to  
> work.

Hey, you got my articles!  :)

> So, what you have there, friend, is what we in the business call... a  
> problem. <g>
>
> Let me have a look around...
>
> Okay, is yours an upgrade of a previous Opera? There's a chap over in  

Upgrade.

> Message-ID:   <dhbhlm$ol1$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> who also couldn't get an RSS  
> feed. His problem was that... well, you can read it, but the solution was  
> that he had to close Opera, open the opera6.ini file (the one located at  
> the Preferences section of Help|AboutOpera ) and change this:
>
> [Userprefs]
> Show e-mail client=0
>
> to this:
>
> [Userprefs]
> Show e-mail client=1
>
> Do you have that?

<HAL>

I can't do that, Dave.

</HAL>

But I can ADD a "Show e-mail client=" line and set it to 1.  :)

<clickety>

Okay, now what?

Note that Feeds/ReadFeeds does nothing.

Note that I've had Mail in my Main Menu all along, and as far as I
remember from earlier versions, the Show E-mail command just
shows/hides that Main Menu entry.

> Oh, I nearly forgot... are you on dial-up? Broadband?

Dialup.  But that's okay, this is only a test.


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