Re: [Fofredux-devel] Version 0.9

[Andrew T. (nilspace) <nil...@us...>]

Wow, things move fast when I don't read my email for about 10 hours.
:) I'm liking how it 's all shaking down to a very nice look. A couple
of points, questions:

* Left-side "mark all as read"
  *  I believe Miles pointed out that this may be confusing. Does this
apply to all the feed items, or just to the 'flagged' items.

* Item view
  *  I think the feed icon (favicon or whatever it is) should be where
the flag currently is and move the flag to the left (or right) of the
"mark as read"
  *  "< Next | Previous >" should probably be "< Previous | Next >"
ala Western page-turning, and the preference that increase in
time/future goes to the right and the past is to the left
  * Can probably drop the ", paged" on "View all items, paged" as
views should always be paged or they have a really good tendency to
crash the browser when 1800 feeds and images are being loaded
  * I'm not sure if the current demo view is "all items", "new items"
or "today's items", perhaps some highlighting of the current view in
the menu item? Then there may also be a view that will dynamically
show up to the left that will be like "Custom View" or "Search View"
or something when someone does a special view?
    Maybe to expand the idea: On the right-hand side is always talking
about "this feed or feeds", so if I say view new, view today's that is
only applying to the current set of feeds that I have selected in the
right-hand side. So on the right side as I flag feeds they will show
up in my right-hand side view or there will be a menu button for "view
all feeds".  New idea, let me know if it doesn't make sense or isn't
clear

  * Tags: I think having two "Tags:" is unnecessary and also doesn't
allow for removing tags. What I suggest would be just the single
"Tags: wordpress, internet, things  | Edit | " - so the user can press
the "Edit" or "Edit tags" button (or double-click the word Tags: ?) to
change the tags area into a typing box where they can add/delete tags.
If we want "quick tags" (i.e. be able to type into a text box and not
have to press "Edit" and then "Save" then we can jut provide an empty
text area after the listed tags. When a user types in any words and
presses the spacebar, it is added the list of tags (ala the magic of
Ajax))
  * Perhaps the coloring scheme b/w Read and Unread items should be
switched? I normally would prefer to read on a white background. We
could even gray out (lighten) the text more on read items, or even
"fold them up" to just the title bar? When, in this scheme, do feeds
"disappear" from my "View new items"? When I click the "Next Items",
"mark all as read" or what?
  * "Save" - please add. Perhaps it's even just a button that adds a
"saved" quicktag. (ooh, future feature, the ability for someone to
select "quicktags" with a drop-select like Kevin's interface now. If I
drop and select a quicktag it is quickly added with no typing
necessary - I, for example, would want quicktags for 'save',
'bookmark', 'snippet', 'toforward')

K - that's it for now - long winded. Khaled, you're obviously doing a
good job, since the better you do, the more people (like me) have
little niggles/suggestions as it all gets massaged into place.

As for the question of 0.3 release, I wonder about that. Perhaps we
want to do a solid, last of it's breed, release as the system
currently is, all bugs squashed and dangling, on the edge, feature
requests. This will then give a very clear baseline change for 0.3 ->
0.4. I could see all these changes taking quite a little bit of dev
time and introducing new bugs (we're all superstar programmers, so i'm
*sure* we wouldn't introduce bugs ;)

0.3 won't be a huge press release event or anything. Just a rolling
out of a bunch of added features and perhaps even suggest to people to
not upgrade, but it's there if they want some of the nifty features
that have popped up (tags, saved items, rss output). 0.3 is fairly
ready for QA testing, and we would slate 0.4 for perhaps April 1
release (the Fool Edition). :)

Andrew



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