by Luke Hutteman

Sat, 19 Apr 2003 00:29:25 +0000

Oh, one feature I want is the ability to "Open in Separate Window" on a feed as well as an individual post. It should really have that.

If you double-click on a feed, it will open it's main page in either the internal browser or in a new window (depending on whether you turned on "open links in external browser" in the options)

I guess I could add a menu-item and keyboard shortcut for this though...

by Keith

Sat, 19 Apr 2003 01:40:16 +0000

If you double-click on a feed, it will open it's main page in either the internal browser or in a new window (depending on whether you turned on "open links in external browser" in the options)

Yeah, I noticed that. It's good, because it's consistent with what double clicking on items does -- enabling this option would further make it consistent. In addition, if I want to read the main site, I usually want to open it up in my default browser (Mozilla). Plus, I tend to keep the embedded browser window pretty small.

I guess I could add a menu-item and keyboard shortcut for this though...

I'd appreciate it!

Since I know you're listening, a few more things:

Colors for updated item: It'd be nice if I could have updated items highlight in blue (or some other (user-specified?) color), rather than just being in italics, and have the feed title in the tree behave similarly. I really liked how Syndirella did this. If you had updated items but no new ones, the feed title in the left pane turned blue. If you had new and updated items, the feed title would be blue and bold. I'd be happy if you had the title of a feed with only updated items at least be italic instead of bold.
Flagging items: I'd like it if I could flag posts to go back to later, rather than just leaving them unread.
More filtering options: I'd like it if you'd add filtering options for "Show unread", to exclude all read items, and "Show locked", so I could see all the items I have locked. Really, being able to filter for flagged items was the main reason I wanted to be able to flag items. So, if you provided a filter for "Show locked" that would do what I wanted flagged items to do. I think it might make more sense to call items flagged instead of locked, or maybe provide both flagged and locked items, but you get the idea.
Lastly, there's a small bug. If you lock an item and then right click on it, the menu-item is still "Lock item" instead of "Unlock item".

Anyway, thanks for a great program Luke.

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