From: Christoph W. <e93...@st...> - 2003-07-16 14:25:16
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Hi, in the last days I did some work on RssView: I added a MenuBar, ToolBar to RssView. Introduced some icons for (they are green). Revamped the Popup Menu(s). All functionality is realized via Actions so we have the same icons, tooltip etc. in our application If you want to take a quick look on how it looks like - A Couple of new Screenshots are available at rssview.sourceforge.net. Note: I changed the L&F to System L&F. I think with JDK 1.4.2 this will be the L&F of most java programmers... - Screens were taken under WinXP :( Removed Bug from RssSettings: When deleting a channel and exiting RssView the channel was still there at the next restart. 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! What is PMD (taken from their webpage)? PMD scans Java source code and looks for potential problems like: * Unused local variables * Empty catch blocks * Unused parameters * Empty 'if' statements * Duplicate import statements * Unused private methods * Classes which could be Singletons * Short/long variable and method names Installer: I created installer for linux, windows and generic java enabled platforms. 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. Let the user choose which system they want to prefer... If you want to test these "prototype" installers: http://rssview.sourceforge.net/installer/ the .bin installer is for linux systems. 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. The TitlePanel could die - I does not really offer really important information - we could realize this by a tooltip. When will you release the next version of RssView? Ciao Christoph -- Christoph Walcher Email: chr...@we... Max-Winter-Platz 7/16 Tel: +43 (1) 9460866 A-1020 Vienna Mobil: +43 (699) 194609867 |
From: Christoph W. <chr...@we...> - 2003-07-16 14:48:10
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Hi, in the last days I did some work on RssView: I added a MenuBar, ToolBar to RssView. Introduced some icons for (they are green). Revamped the Popup Menu(s). All functionality is realized via Actions so we have the same icons, tooltip etc. in our application If you want to take a quick look on how it looks like - A Couple of new Screenshots are available at rssview.sourceforge.net. Note: I changed the L&F to System L&F. I think with JDK 1.4.2 this will be the L&F of most java programmers... - Screens were taken under WinXP :( Removed Bug from RssSettings: When deleting a channel and exiting RssView the channel was still there at the next restart. 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! What is PMD (taken from their webpage)? PMD scans Java source code and looks for potential problems like: * Unused local variables * Empty catch blocks * Unused parameters * Empty 'if' statements * Duplicate import statements * Unused private methods * Classes which could be Singletons * Short/long variable and method names Installer: I created installer for linux, windows and generic java enabled platforms. 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. Let the user choose which system they want to prefer... If you want to test these "prototype" installers: http://rssview.sourceforge.net/installer/ the .bin installer is for linux systems. 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. The TitlePanel could die - I does not really offer really important information - we could realize this by a tooltip. When will you release the next version of RssView? Ciao Christoph -- Christoph Walcher Email: chr...@we... Max-Winter-Platz 7/16 Tel: +43 (1) 9460866 A-1020 Vienna Mobil: +43 (699) 194609867 |
From: Martin K. <ci...@gm...> - 2003-07-16 17:22:10
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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 |
From: Christoph W. <e93...@st...> - 2003-07-16 18:59:00
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Hi, >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. > Perfect! It's not much more work I guess. >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? > Hm, signing an EXE file - NO. But Windows users will like these files even if they do not know what they get before double clicking... >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 :) > > Cool idea, I though about this earlier. But I see a Feed reader more as a News client than as a Browser... Ah, and it's a lot of work! > 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. Take a look into CVS Repository - the bug is gone. This is indeed a bug in Swing - they created a LinkController in HTMLEditorKit that is more or less hard coded and took developers the change to override this in a simple was - We have the Class RssHTMLEditorKit now. It works! Ciao Christoph -- Christoph Walcher Email: chr...@we... Max-Winter-Platz 7/16 Tel: +43 (1) 9460866 A-1020 Vienna Mobil: +43 (699) 194609867 |