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We now have several localised planetnetbeans.org feeds. It would be nice to somehow make use of them in the welcome screen, eg when the IDE is launched in an FR locale, to load the FR RSS feed from planetnb. If not done automatically, perhaps the welcome screen could notify the user that it exists ? Not sure how to handle detection of whether a feed exists or not, other than eg doing an http request to test (404 means that lang doesn't exist). URLs take the form : http://www.planetnetbeans.org/$lang/rss10.xml eg http://www.planetnetbeans.org/fr/rss10.xml Also note some $lang feeds are almost inactive, so we should not use them exclusively.
Thanks Jack for creating this RFE. I would add that EN/main planetnetbeans.org feed should always be displayed, off course.
if the list of localized feeds is known and stable during the release cycles we can simply add localized entries with feed urls into resource bundles. the user will get the feed in language depending on their selected locale defaulting to english feed when there's no localized feed for the current locale.
Does this means that it would be a locale OR english feed? I don't think that completely masking english feed would be a good thing: it would be better to always have english feed, AND locale one if available.
i meant either localized one (if exists) or the default english one. i could also merge the localized and english feeds into a single list. but only a few items are visible in the welcome screen so the content might 'scroll out' too fast to catch interesting topics.