Re: [Feedreader-development] Some things i'd like to implement

[Kyle C. <ky...@ky...>]

From: "Toomas Toots" <to...@i-...>

> 5. What does community think about last email about integration with
> shell? I could make deskband dll what stays on taskbar (user canselect
> it from "taskbar properties" > "Toolbars" > "Feedreader deskband" for


This is a nice idea, but I very much recommend that all known substantial
bugs should be fixed before substantial new features are added.

One example of a bug is this show-stopper that I reported:

1) Feedreader sometimes write invalid XML to one of its data files

2) when reading the file back in, it fail to parse, then fail silently with
no error message, yet lose the "read / not read" status of every item in
every feed.  (Code which fails silently in there is an error, is an
extremely bad idea, by the way.)

I've tried actually using FeedReader several times, and had to give up after
a few days because of this, every time.  This might be a problem with a
feed, but a requirement of a system like this is that no feed data problem
should every cause the system to lose data.  It must not rely on the feeds
being properly formatted, because that is not the reality of the RSS world.

Has this been fixed in the latest alpha version?  If so I'll give it try and
verify it.

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