RE: [Rssview-developers] New Site look

[Christoph W. <sai...@ya...>]

Hi,

Martin wrote:
> I have personally still one RFE, which I would like to discuss. I 
> would like to have a dialog, where one can add a feed by clicking on 
> it.
> 
> This would require to create a small DTD for configuration
> of the list which will be displayed. This list can be maintained by 
> us. (Maybe this way it'd be possible to get sponsorship and give 
> something back. We can discuss the options and wheather we really
> need sponsorship.)   

I'm a little bit confused. Does that mean that we keep a List of Feeds on
our homepage (as XML file) and have some mechanism like - "subscribe
predefined feed" in RssView?

> Secondly, we need to display this list appropriately. I can can 
> imagine a dialog that displays an icon of the feed and its name. We 
> can decide where we get the icon from:
> a) an URL in the feed
> b) a fixed URL in our config
> c) a default icon
> 
> The dialog itself should download the feed icons only
> if they need to be displayed. It does not make sense
> to download 1000 icons at once, if we have 1000 feeds
> in our configuration.
> 
> We should also associate folders for the feeds in the configuration.

Ok, predefined Feeds with a folder structure.
 
> What do you think about it?

I like the idea. Makes it easier for new users to start with RssView. I'll
investigate some possibilities to integrate these changes.

Ciao
Christoph

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