Re: [Feedreader-development] Development priorities

[Karsten H. <mai...@kh...>]

Nicole Simon wrote:

> Karsten Hoffrath <mai...@kh...> wrote:
> 
>>Nice to have but what is the use of this? To exchange feedlists with 
>>other programs? 
> 
> 
> No. To import your existing list from other feedreaders into feedreader. I
> can't test other readers because I have to write a skript to convert all my
> feeds. Remember: The harder a change is, the easier it is to switch
> completely and never come back.
> 

Ok, i get this. But then there must be a standard fileformat for this 
exchange. Where to find it?

> 
> 
>>>- finding feeds from HTML pages usig
>>>  <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="/rss.xml" />
>>
>>I'm not sure under when to use this? When a page is shown in the 
>>EmbeddedWB? And then extract all feeds out of this page?
> 
> 
> No. If you have feedreader installed and have a nice blog which you want to
> subscribe, you do now
> - desire to subscribe
> - copy feed address
> - switch to feedreader
> - f2
> - insert link
> - wait
> - set finished
> 
> with the abouve:
> - desire to subscribe
> - klick button
> - set finished
> 

Ah, ok. But this will work only in the browser within Feedreader.
Do you have an example for such a link?

> 
> 
>>Where do you want to improve it? 
> 
> 
> Better Keyboard accessibilty - the short cuts are mostly not working plus
> there are other things one could improve (mainly "where does the focus go
> when one has klicked somewhere)
> 

Could you make a small list for this issues?

> 
>>>- stability, stability, stability
>>
>>For me it is pretty stable. I use it now for over six months and never 
>>had a problem (ok, except the mentioned bugs) nor crash. On the other 
>>hand i'm not pushing it. 
> 
> 
> it takes minutes till it is loaded. it is more stable on my xp/768 mb ram
> machine. it wasn't under win me. if i had stayed with win me I would have
> switched to another reader.
> 

I believe the problem here is that
-you keep all headlines and never remove old ones(?) and/or
-the feed informations are stored in xml and parsing this at startup
  takes some time.

To change this we could switch to another fileformat but then we need
the OPML import/export functionality. Maybe more, for example archiving
old headlines, etc.


> 
>>Nicole has 300 feeds in her setup so maybe she 
>>should talk about stability ;) .
> 
> 
> if we had a feature to export feeds I could give you my file and you could
> easily test it ...

No problem :)
Go to the feedreader application directory, zip the files 
"headlines.xml" and "subscriptions.xml" and send it to me.

You will find the files in this directory (assuming you have a german 
Windows):

C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\%Username%\Anwendungsdaten\FeedReader

If you don't see "Anwendungsdaten" you should enable the directory 
option "Show all files".



Karsten