Vienna

Pointed out by Rui, Vienna is a Mac OS X news aggregator in the vein of NetNewsWire, but open source. It certainly isn’t as featureful as others in the field, but in my brief looks at it today, it seems to hold promise and has the basics. Somewhat buggy, or at least unpolished in areas, but worth keeping an eye on. And being that it’s open source, if you have the skills to make it better, you can. Plus it has a cool icon. ;) Give it a shot.

A tip

Vienna has a preference so you choose to “Mark current article read” either “After next unread article is displayed” or “After a short delay”. However, the delay is far too long for my taste as I jam through headlines I want to ignore.

Thankfully, there is an item in the .plist file for Vienna that can adjust the time of delay. Open up the file ~/Library/Preferences/uk.co.opencommunity.vienna2.plist in a text editor or the Property List Editor if you have the developer tools installed. The item is ‘MarkReadInterval’, which is set at 0.500000 seconds. I changed it to 0.100000 and feel much better.

If you don’t see that item in the editor, you can either add it there, or alternatively change it via the command line:

defaults write uk.co.opencommunity.vienna2 MarkReadInterval 0.1