No warning when subscribing to duplicate feed

[Wei-Yee Chan]

Unlike some RSS/Atom feed aggregators (such as Thunderbird), Akregator does not issue a warning when the user tries to subscribe to a feed that is already subscribed, thereby resulting in duplicate feeds.

I encountered this problem when using version 4:4.2.2-0ubuntu1 in Ubuntu 9.04.

[Michael Schuerig (michael-schuerig)]

Version: 1.2.8 (using KDE 3.5.8, Debian Package 4:3.5.8.dfsg.1-4 (lenny/sid))
Compiler: Target: i486-linux-gnu
OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.22-3-686

Akregator does not prevent adding the same feed multiple times. In my opinion, this is a bug in the specification, although not in the implementation.

[Osterfeld (osterfeld)]

Actually I consider it an implementation bug ;-)
It's perfectly fine IMO to have a feed in multiple folders (think of categories or tags where every item can have multiple tags). However, Akregator considers both entries as separate feeds which unfortunately share the same article archive, which can lead to all kinds of strange behavior. Ideally there would be exactly one "logical" feed with the ability to appear in multiple folders.

[FiNeX (finex)]

*** Bug 121865 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152471

[Wei-Yee Chan (chanweiyee)]

Thanks.

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Closing in favor of KDE bug report, please refer there for updates. Thanks.

[Adrián Chaves (gallaecio)]

I agree with Frank, this should be possible, and it could be handled better. Not only avoid the need of Akregator internals to have duplicated information or refresh the same feed twice, but also so you can mark one of the instances of the feed as “read”, and get the other one marked as “read” as well.

In addition, I would say that you should get a warning dialog when doing it (in case you did not want to add a duplicated feed), so you can cancel if you want to.

[Justin Zobel (justin-zobel)]

Thank you for the bug report.

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