[Rssview-developers] Some new RSSViewer Ideas

[Matthias S. <sch...@su...>]

Hi Martin,

the moment i've sended the patch for the coloring, i started to realize that 
something is wrong with the root node ... sorry: to little testing before 
sending a patch ...

I've some other ideas what to change in the code, if you think these ideas are 
of use, i can do the coding:

a) the shortcut ALT-M for marking all messages read simply don't work on my 
boxes (Linux|Solaris|Mac OS X). Can I assign a new schortcut (F-Something?) 
AND put the Context-Menu-Entry for "Mark all read" much higher, since this is 
what you do on a day-to-day base rather then reconfiguring your 
subscriptions.

b) We can Highlight ALL Subscribtions by selecting root ( ... or use a button/
Shortcut) and mark them all read.

c) I played around with the "Remember Items" Option. After having several 
hundred (100-300) articles in the DB, things are getting slow. First i 
suspected the DB to be guilty but it isn't. I've used some profilers on the 
code, just for my own curiosity. I've attached a screenshot which shows that 
the vast majority of the CPU is consumed by 
javax.swing.text.HTMLDocument.insertHTML() operations. To get around this, 
one can implement some caching strategy to buffer the generated HTML and only 
append when something new happens AND ( ... and this is not i minor change, 
but it's worth to do it in the long run ) don't do the work in the 
AWT-Thread. This would make the GUI much more touchy, esp. when someone 
change his/her mind which channel to view, while still doing the rendering.

d) We can do some experiments with changing the Swing Look&Feel to the 
discovered platform. It's a minor change, and the results are worth it.

... and by the way: you created a very usefull and fine piece of code. I use 
it every day. Thanks.

cheers,

Matthias

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