Straw is a desktop news aggregator for the GNOME environment. Its aim is to
be a faster, easier and more accessible way to read news and blogs than the
traditional browser.

* Minimum Requirements *

1. Python 2.2.
2. pyadns
3. Berkeley DB3 and pybsddb. (pybsddb ships with python 2.3)
4. PyGTK, python bindings for GTK+. 
5. gnome-python 1.99.13.
6. orbit-python or pyorbit.
7. libglade
8. mxDateTime
9. PyXML

* Installation *

[foo@test.com]$ cd /straw/directory
[foo@test.com]$ make install

* Notes on Installation *

The Makefile installs files into three locations: the straw executable
into a directory that should be in your $PATH, a library directory to
a location that should be in python's search path, and a data
directory into a location that should be an architecture-neutral
directory.

In practice, this means, at least by default, /usr/local/bin,
/usr/local/lib/python2.2/site-packages and /usr/local/share.

If the library directory isn't in your search path, or if you for some
reason installed it elsewhere, you should point the STRAW_LIB
environment variable at the directory under which the straw library
directory was created. That is, in the default installation,
/usr/local/lib/python2.2/site-packages.

* Notes on Configuring your Web Browser *

If you click on a URL, straw loads the URL in whatever browser is set in your
environment. In GNOME 2.x, this is done through the "Web Browser" tab in

 1. Applications -> Desktop Preferences -> Advanced -> Preferred Applications.


Visit http://www.nongnu.org/straw for more info.

$Id: README,v 1.5 2003/08/16 10:13:20 jmalonzo Exp $
