Thread: [Feedreader-development] Bugs/annoyances
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From: Carl Y. <car...@gm...> - 2004-09-23 21:19:19
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I have been using feedreader successfully for a while now. Overall I like the program a lot, especially how fast and lightweight it is, but I have a few problems/annoyances. In case these are helpful at all, here they are: 1) I can't delete a folder that I no longer want. It is a subfolder underneath a main folder that is underneath "My feeds". 2) I'm constantly seeing old articles highlighted as being new, even though I just recently read them. I also see a number of duplicate articles. I'm assuming that this is because the articles are being updated slightly, or at least something in the downloaded data is slightly different, and feedreader is assuming that it has downloaded a new article when in fact it is the same as another article that has already been downloaded. There should be a way of identitying a few very basic characteristics of an article and using these as a unique index to prevent duplication. Updates to articles would be written over old versions, and the user would have the option of flagging these as unread or not. 3) When a feed gets some new messages, I see many numbers in parentheses piling up next to the bolded feed text, such as "Slashdot (7)(7)(7)(7)(7)(7)(7)", but when I click on the feed those duplicate numbers disappear. 4) It'd be nice to have some browser buttons in the preview pane that allowed you to move back without having to right-click on a blank area and click back. As I think of more issues I'll try and post them. Thanks, Carl Youngblood |
From: Jeroen B. <je...@li...> - 2004-09-23 21:30:11
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I also started to make a list with things that need IMHO some changes, so i'll post it here: * When Feedreader is open (so not minimzed in thesystemtray) it does not have a button on the taskbar. Imho having a button on the taskbar when the app is not minimized would be very usefull. (added this already as an RFE http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1033045&group_id=70179&atid=526866) * When there is an error with a feed (parse error, hierarchy error,..) it would be nicer if that feed in the tree would be coloured red or marked somehow instead of the (annoying) error message. (Sharpreader has a nice manner of marking feeds with errors) * Feedreader doesn't save the state of folders * Like carl set, updated items should be marked in a different way (sharpreader by example shows them in italic instead of bold) * In comparison to sharpreader updating my feeds (about 60-70 i think) takes a lot longer. Sharpreader seems to do this multithreaded, while feedreader seems to do it one-be-one, could this be changed? * also nice would be to show a different icon in the systemtray when there are unread items Kind regards and Thanks for the nice app!! Jeroen Carl Youngblood wrote: > I have been using feedreader successfully for a while now. Overall > I like the program a lot, especially how fast and lightweight it > is, but I have a few problems/annoyances. In case these are > helpful at all, here they are: > > 1) I can't delete a folder that I no longer want. It is a > subfolder underneath a main folder that is underneath "My feeds". > 2) I'm constantly seeing old articles highlighted as being new, > even though I just recently read them. I also see a number of > duplicate articles. I'm assuming that this is because the articles > are being updated slightly, or at least something in the downloaded > data is slightly different, and feedreader is assuming that it has > downloaded a new article when in fact it is the same as another > article that has already been downloaded. There should be a way of > identitying a few very basic characteristics of an article and > using these as a unique index to prevent duplication. Updates to > articles would be written over old versions, and the user would > have the option of flagging these as unread or not. 3) When a feed > gets some new messages, I see many numbers in parentheses piling up > next to the bolded feed text, such as "Slashdot > (7)(7)(7)(7)(7)(7)(7)", but when I click on the feed those > duplicate numbers disappear. 4) It'd be nice to have some browser > buttons in the preview pane that allowed you to move back without > having to right-click on a blank area and click back. > > As I think of more issues I'll try and post them. > > Thanks, Carl Youngblood > > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net > email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project > Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who > ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. > Deadline: Sept. 24. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php > _______________________________________________ > Feedreader-development mailing list > Fee...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/feedreader-development > > > > - -- <TeRanEX/> --- e-mail: je...@li... - jid: te...@ja... --- blog: http://budts.be/weblog/ - cv: http://budts.be/jeroen --- projects: http://lightyear.be - pgp: 0x8B7B774A _____________________________________ NO SoftwarePatents in Europe! See an example: http://webshop.ffii.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBU0BWH04wF4t7d0oRAsQ1AJwJMIRmYB1NfrnctsjjZ5J1CE+GpQCghfCx XRiVN+U5yGnrHlMM2i739RY= =6z9A -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0439-1, 2004-09-22 Tested on: 23/09/2004 23:30:02 |