Liferea always starts offline

Do you have internet connection when opening it?

Liferea 1.2 has internet detection, so if it detects that you don't have internet, it will enter offline.

However, you can disable this feature clicking on the connection icon in the left top corner of the window.

If you have internet connection, could you provide more info? I don't have this problem with Liferea 1.2.4.

And if you don't have 1.2.4, please upgrade and test again.

Thanks
Pochu

I do have 1.2.4 and a working network connection, but it's a static one, one that Network-Manager doesn't "recognize". Could that be the problem?

Yes, that's the problem. Liferea uses network-manager to view the connection, so if you don't have network-manager working properly, you won't have liferea working properly :)

To solve the problem, solve the network-manager one ;)

Regards
Pochu

OK, then I'm thinking this should be closed here. Should it then be attached to an open n-m bug, so others can trace the issue?

That would be fine. Look if there is one opened, and if there is, post a link to this report. If there isn't, feel free to open a new one ;)

Hrm... thinking out loud (not at my Ubuntu box), but I'm wondering if it'd work if I weren't running n-m. (I must admit I'm not sure how the network detection works in programs like this and Gaim in the absence of n-m.)

By the way, this is bug #5364 in n-m. Is there a way to "link" them other than marking it as a duplicate?

I think It would work without n-m. Why? Because it would work as if now you press the connection button. What does that is tell liferea not to check the connection, so liferea always tries to download new feeds.

About linking one bug report to other, it is possible. If the other report is also in Launchpad, click Also affects Distribution, and if it is in another page (such as Sourceforge, gnome...) then click Also affects Upstream (they two on the left panel).

Regards
Pochu

Well, we can't do it if the other bug is in malone.