Re: [Rssview-developers] RssView refurbished

[Martin K. <ci...@gm...>]

On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 15:52, Christoph Walcher wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> in the last days I did some work on RssView:

Hi, I tried the EXE-installer. It looks nice and without problems.
I like this layout with the menu. Looks almost like a browser.

The buttons are smaller and I like it like this.

> PMD Registration:
> I registered RssView at the PMD page: 
> http://pmd.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/webpmd.pl
> I think this could help us to write better code!

Yes. It's a good idea, because RssView should have clean code.
I guess there is lots to do, even it's small.

> I know that some of you would like to realize this using 
> WebStart but I think its quite easy to create these installer files and 
> offers a lot of convenience to the users that want a quick tiny and 
> versalite RSS feed reader out of the box.

Yes. We can try both ways. It's not that difficult to install using
Webstart. And the advantage is that it will keep your binary up-to-date.

> If you want to test these "prototype" installers: 
> http://rssview.sourceforge.net/installer/
> the .bin installer is for linux systems.

Yes. I looked at the EXE installer. It works, but I am somehow "afraid"
of EXE-files. Is there a way to sign such an installer?

> Proposal for Userinterface:
> I find it very hard to keep track of Articles in Channels in our current 
> Userinterface. What I would prefer is a layout like in popular Mail 
> Clients (Mozilla, KMail) where you have one folder panel (our channel 
> panel) one email items panel (A table of articles in the Channel) and a 
> Content area where we could display the link target and/or some article 
> details.

How about a UI like popular WEB BROWSERS? I would like to use RssView
with bookmarks, tabbed browsing and offline reader. It would be 
interesting to if we can save the feeds in a file including
pictures/logos/icons. There are also other type of feeds.

Any comments on that? Maybe I'm dreaming too much :)

> The TitlePanel could die - I does not really offer really 
> important information - we could realize this by a tooltip.

You don't need even a tooltip. I realized that people don't like the
title-area. It's ok if we kill it.

But keep the "search-box"! I like it and I am using it! We can move
it into the main area.

> When will you release the next version of RssView?

We can release, but there are 2 bugs. I don't like to release when
I have work scheduled. I've been sitting a long time at bug #712974,
but I haven't found any possibility to get rid of this bug.

I like this settings dialog. It looks great.

Martin