Flatsonar

RSS Guard Lite

by Martin Rotter

Simple, yet powerful news feed reader (without web browser)

Sandboxed Verified creator GPL-3.0 v5.2.5
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About

RSS Guard Lite is a news feed reader, written in C++ and Qt.

It supports many feed formats, such as:

  • ATOM
  • JSON (1.x)
  • RSS (0.x, 1.x, 2.x)

It also supports many web-based feed services, including:

  • Feedly
  • Gmail
  • Google Reader API (Bazqux, FreshRSS, Inoreader, Miniflux, Reedah, The Old Reader, etc.)
  • Next Cloud News
  • Tiny Tiny RSS
  • XMPP PubSub
  • Gemini Protocol

Permissions

Everything this app can reach outside its sandbox. Nothing here weakens it.

  • inter-process communication (needed for X11)
    --share=ipc
  • network
    --share=network
  • X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable
    --socket=fallback-x11
  • audio
    --socket=pulseaudio
  • Wayland display
    --socket=wayland
  • GPU acceleration
    --device=dri
  • access to xdg-config/kdeglobals
    --filesystem=xdg-config/kdeglobals:ro
  • talks to com.canonical.AppMenu.Registrar
    --talk-name=com.canonical.AppMenu.Registrar
  • talks to org.kde.kconfig.notify
    --talk-name=org.kde.kconfig.notify
  • talks to org.kde.KGlobalSettings
    --talk-name=org.kde.KGlobalSettings
  • system tray
    --talk-name=org.kde.StatusNotifierWatcher
  • notifications
    --talk-name=org.freedesktop.Notifications

Who publishes this

The creator demonstrably controls this app id: Flathub verification, the hosting account owns the namespace, or a well-known file on their domain.

  • verified on Flathub: the developer proved they control this app id
    publisher:flathub

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