Frothing (Feed Reading On The Hoof) is a news aggregator for online news feeds. There are many other news readers available, but some are not available for mobile Linux devices or require many extra libraries to be installed. Frothing tries to fill this gap by creating a fast and easy to use news aggregator for mobile Linux handheld devices

Installation

For now, to install Frothing you need to compile it inside a Hildon compatible desktop environment. To create such an environment have a look at the Moblin site or the Maemo site

Frothing was originally created for the Ubuntu Mobile Guide as an example of how to port an application written in C to the Ubuntu Mobile Edition. This guide is available online here and is good to read for background information.

UME		Maemo

Compiling from Source

Either check out the source from svn or grab the tarball to compile

The source can be checked out from the repositories by:

svn checkout http://frothing.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ frothing

The tarball can be downloaded from the project page and extracted by:

tar zxvf frothing-<release>.tar.gz

After unpacking/checking out the code, run the standard autotools commands inside your target:

./configure --enable-hildon

make

make install

Dependencies

On Ubuntu the dependencies can be satisfied by: apt-get install libgtkhtml2-0 libgtkhtml2-dev libxml-perl libxslt1-dev libglade2-0 libglade2-dev libsqlite3-0 libsqlite3-dev libhildondesktop-dev xulrunner

Maemo Notes

Thanks to Chris Malley

libgtkhtml2-0 and libgtkhtml2-0-dev are not available (yet?) in the maemo repositories so you need to apt-get the source from debian/ubuntu and build it inside scratchbox with --disable-accessibility

Also you need to add

AC_CHECK_LIB(gthread-2.0, g_thread_init)

into configure.ac and do a aclocal/autoconf/autoheader/automake

To Do

- Create armel and X86 debs

- Create Maemo One Click Installer