In-built news feed/button

[Tg8igPGjh3]

Not sure if this is easy or hard in Qt. But maybe worth a try.
People (and so do I) miss important announcements like the PPA change.
And we could use this to tell people to upgrade (for the BTGuard fix.)

Original idea (from me): http://qbforums.shiki.hu/index.php/topic,2166.0.html

Feature:

• New button on toolbar, mail icon for example.
• It shows how many news we have.
• The number disappears if you click the icon.
• Only headlines show, you can click it and it opens them with default browser.

The function behind:

• It fetches the count of the posts. (Download page, count a html element?)
• It fetches the headlines.
• Turn headlines into clickable links/lines.

[Tg8igPGjh3]

This is a feature request, tag it as one, please. Thank you.

[sledgehammer999]

Sorry but this screams bloat.

non-Windows/MAC users couldn't do anything even if they wanted. They can't directly download a binary from us. They have to wait for their distro's packagers to make the new version available.

Windows users already get a popup window when a new version is available. If they care for the changes, they can get them in the News section of the site.

But there are 2 things we can do/improve on the site:

1. Expose a direct link to the changelog entry in the News section, when the user browses the Download page.
2. Make the News available as an RSS feed too, so anyone interested could subscribe to it.

[Tg8igPGjh3]

You misunderstood me I guess (or maybe not).

The main point is that people will read news. If they read them, we can make announcements, which we think are important. Like "Ubuntu PPA users: Please adjust your repositories."
And things like that.

I don't want direct downloads or a different update mechanism, just a way to communicate with people.
This PPA change is one of the examples I could think of...

(I understand that many people don't fit into the Ubuntu PPA user crowd for example. But it's just an example. Btw we could make an Ubuntu bugreport, ask the community so affected people can sign it. You can ask the devs to upgrade given packages if the users benefit from that.)

[sledgehammer999]

I don't think coding such a feature in qbt is a good idea.

The PPA change was in the News but nobody cared much to read it, anyway.

[Tg8igPGjh3]

Yeah but that's just an example.
I only saw / visited the news site twice. Once when I first heard about qBT and then when someone mentioned it on the forums. But that's it. There is no notice, no nothing. It's just lying there with important info.

But oh well, I don't want to bloat the software either.

[luzpaz]

It could parse the changelog at https://www.qbittorrent.org/news

Edit: it could also encourage on-boarding devs