RE: [Rssview-developers] Feed Assistant

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

Hi,

Martin wrote:
> Am Di, den 19.10.2004 schrieb Christoph Walcher um 0:06:
> 
>> I did some experiments how a xml file storing a couple of predefined
>> Feeds should look like. Here's my proposal:
> 
>> <!DOCTYPE dictionary>
> 
> Other name please. Something which would not collide with other
> applications:
> - feed-list
> - rssview-feeds
> 
> or similar.

Dictionary is perhaps not the right name <directory> would fit better. For
name uniqueness we will use namespaces and no prefixes!

>> <dictionary>
>>   <category name="news">
>>   <feed
>>     title="orf.online"
>>     lang="de"
>>     url="rss.orf.at">
>>     <description><![CDATA[News auf ORF.at]]></description>
> 
> I'm missing my icon here and the specification FROM WHERE
> it is going to be downloaded.

Work for a minute :) As I said proposal/experiment.

> Also missing "default folder".

What's "default folder"?

>> We'll need some kind of language key for useful dictionaries (example
>> above). I created some Code to read this information. How should we
>> present it? JTable, JTextPane, JScrollPane with panels? I think a
>> flat hierarchy should work because a user will not want to import our
>> categorizations (tree)? Or would he?
> 
> Flat representation as a JList in a JScrollPane.

Is not useful for displaying long text (e.g. description) - perhaps some
detail field with an icon, description would be nice. ASCII Art example:

Channel List           Detail
--------------------  ---------------
|channel1          |  | name        |
|channel2          |  | description |
|channel3          |  | icon        |
|....              |  |             |
|                  |  | addButton   |
|                  |  ---------------
|                  |
--------------------

Hope that outlook does not clutter my artwork :)
Double-click could add of course. We would not need to load all(or a lot of
them) icons but one! Then common feed icon sizes would be no problem (see
icon scaling in our Folder tree).

> Single item (JLabel with Icon):
> --------------------------------------------
>> icon | channel name			   |
> --------------------------------------------
> 
> Double-clicking it should suffice to add it
> in the default folder.
> 
> Icon size about 32x32 or 48x48.
> 

Well, well!

Cheers
Christoph