Opened 17 years ago
Closed 17 years ago
#34 closed Enhancement (wontfix)
Add News tab for news from all the projects
| Reported by: | KSMarksPsych | Owned by: | romw |
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| Priority: | Trivial | Milestone: | Undetermined |
| Component: | Manager | Version: | |
| Keywords: | Cc: |
Description
Posted by: Date: 8:24 PM 06-28-2005 Idea: have a seperate tab in the Boinc GUI which holds all the updated news from the various projects their news pages/technical news. Downloaded to the harddrive in a text file.
There's just the problem with how to show it in a coherent way. Options: buttons on the side per project, or choosing the project in the Projects tab, the news will show accordingly.
It would probably be a sort of RSS feed, but then inside the Boinc GUI.
Another problem would be how to capture the news. Probably the wisest thing is to let it check the news pages once every time contact is made to the scheduler (dial-up) or at the same time that the automated scheduling check is made (always on connections).
In the event of new news, have it overwrite or add to the text file on the harddrive. In that case one could even think of a way to purge old news from the file once news is older than X days.
Change History (3)
comment:1 Changed 17 years ago by
comment:2 Changed 17 years ago by
Look at my new web project ;) It's a BOINC RSS reader! I should help You: http://boinc.dl.pl
comment:3 Changed 17 years ago by
| Resolution: | → wontfix |
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| Status: | new → closed |
This goes beyond the scope of BOINC Manager.
I think this would be a good idea (in fact I proposed it previously).
Perhaps even a mechanism for pushing user-specific or host-specific articles if the project staff need to contact people for some reason.