[amphetadesk-develop] Re: [amphetadesk-discuss] Sneak Preview Screenshot - Thoughts?

[Morbus I. <mo...@di...>]

>>   * There's a "show hidden (3)". This will not be done in time   for
>>   the next release, but you can expect it next year <g>.
>
>Any hints what this will do?

The next release planned is 0.93.2. The above feature won't show up until
the next one, 0.94. Ultimately, however, it'll be an optional (but enabled
by default) feature that will allow you to automatically or manually expire
items from the primary page that you no longer want to see. They'll still
be there - just "hidden". Clicking the "show hidden (3)" would, in this
case, show the three hidden items (inline or on a new page, I've yet to
decide).

The determining factors on "should I hide an item" will be something like:

  * how many times has it been seen? (user-config).
  * how old is it (based on item date or download time) (user-config).
  * did the user tell me explicitly to delete this item?

It's really the last remaining feature I want to add before 1.0 - 0.94
will be it's debut, and then the plan is to release 1.0 with it's related
bug fixes (and a few phrase/concept changes, like going from "My Channels"
to "My Subscriptions", and so forth).

I'm still bouncing it around in my head, but 1.0 may not be backwards
compatible with all the previous releases (the extent of this to the
end-user would be "ok, manually rename "myChannels.opml" to
"mySubscriptions.opml"). But all that's the future, not stone.

>Just one suggestion: How about having an alternating background for
>the individual items, i.e. white - light grey - white - etc

Did that about twenty minutes after the screenshot :) ... It's a very
light grey (far lighter than #cccccc for those who know HTML colors).

>>   * You can now get further information about the feed over at
>>     syndic8.com, which is a clearing house for RSS information.
>
>What happens if the feed isn't listed at syndic8?

Nothing much. That link "searches" for the feed's XML URL at
Syndic8 - if there's no match, then they'll be no search results.

>Done. Thanks for the great work with AmphetaDesk!

And thank you for the comments!

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