Re: [Rssview-developers] RssView progress

[Christoph W. <e93...@st...>]

Hi,

Martin Krzysiak wrote:

>I'm speechles... :) rssview looks great in my opinion. And it
>looks like a totally new application. The browser-view looks
>impressive.
>  
>
Thanks

>1) I don't like the term "root" in SubscriptionAdapterTreeModel.java
>   Let's name it "My channels" or something similar, if you want
>   to keep the root in the tree. I guess that an empty tree looks
>   confusing right?
>
Hm, in my opinion the root node was not visible - perhaps I missed 
setting it to invisible when testing some DnD stuff.

>2) Proxy support settings should be complete: user & password for
>   proxy authentication are missing.
>  
>
Proxy Support with username & pwd could be tricky since we have to load 
all external URLs via a special Http Connection. Perhaps you know a less 
time intesive way to implement that feature.

>3) Compact view is not what I meant it to be anymore. I wanted to
>   have a compact ticker where I can simply see the headlines
>   and eventually the (short) article text. The browser-panel 
>   makes this compact view too heavy.
>   In case you like this view in combination with the browser, we
>   can keep it of course. I don't like to remove features, but the
>   "real" compact view should be added back again. Even the menu bar 
>   can disapear in this view.
>
You're right, I thought about that. RssView is quite easy extensible via 
a View interface that places all needed components on the Frame so I 
think it would be better to introduce a really tiny ticker view than 
changing Compact View.

>4) Can we save the column widths in the table in our settings?
>  
>
No Problem. RssSettings uses the XmlEncoder decoder. Adding these width 
integers should be a 10 minutes job.

>5) Can we have status icons in the "New"-Column instead of the
>   checkbox (might be an advantage in future)?
>
Bad idea in my opinion because the cell editor for boolean comes for 
free and a cellEditor for image columns does not. Would be better if we 
delay that until we really need it.

>6) Can we remove the grid in the table (set to white)?
>  
>
Of course - you can do a Look and Feel test I'm in doubt if it looks 
good after removing the grid lines - perhaps horizontal grid lines could 
be turned of - but if I take a look at Mozilla mail - it could work - 
well its worth a test.

>Since you have invested much work, I want to ask first, before
>starting to change anything. 
>
We've CVS ;)

Ciao
Christoph

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