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Twidi	2010-09-15 , 02:30
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Originally Posted by Frank Banul

Feature requests:

I have disabled the timer that scrolls the title in the item view constantly, it's too distracting. Maybe make this a preference?

I have disabled the banner title that scrolls up on view and then is hidden. This is distracting as well. Maybe another preference?

I also reversed the sort order that I requested above.

After these 3 changes (of personal preference), this seems like a pretty sweet application.

thanks,
Frank

I'll have some settings for these things. But i quickly have to redesign the settings box, it will be too long (or maybe it's ok if the dialg is very long ?)

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	fpp	2010-09-15 , 13:19
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There are many long, scrolling settings dialogs,even in Nokia's own software, so I guess it should be OK :-)

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	fpp	2010-09-15 , 14:33
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Background colours:

Originally Posted by Twidi

i changed this by used highlight colors instead normal colors (before this change i just used the background as foreground and vice-versa)
And an other change : little feed-name at the right are limited to 1/3 of the total length, to let more place for the feed title (and a bug with multi height lines was also resolved)

Yup, much nicer that way ! I'm not sure about the blue vertical lines to the left of the Feeds lists, though : are those by design, or side effects ?

Icons on the first two screens (Feeds & Posts) :

I have not a lot of space, anybody could have long titles...

The first Feeds screen has rather short strings (site names mostly), so there definitely is room for icons on the right, grr-style : Sync, Rotate, All/Unread and Settings would be really useful here.

I agree the second one (posts) could be left alone, even though the titles could wrap to multi-line.

Now all list and internal browser should gain focus each time a now content is selected in the previous window.

Yesss ! Great !

The keyboard shortcuts are not here yet but i know i have this to do

Hmm, OK... I'll remind you :-)

Scrolling title :

Thanks to Mavit (someone here ) who made this optional in settings (now available in my version)

What a relief, thanks Mavit !

Fading title :

The delay is a little longer now

Make option in settings, # of seconds, 0=fixed ?...

Feed name in View Post mode:

With the new limited length of feed titles, it should be better

I don't see anything new in post view ?

"the Fred mode"

It could be an idea

I still think it's a good one :-)

Font size:

I will change the default and add an option in the settings window I do the same way each time (zoom at the start of the session)...

Good, I'm not alone :-)

Navigation in portait mode:

Notice that you can now switch to the previous/next item directly while viewing an item with two new "furtive" buttons... (but no currently option to fetch more, refresh (etc) in this view)

Well... that was more or less what I was thinking of when I said "a few buttons for the basics"... so that's the basics taken care of, and I agree that portait mode is now usable :-)

Good job once again !

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Twidi	2010-09-16 , 04:17
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Lots of little stuff tonight.

Here is a quick explanation of each commit :

"optimizations in libgreader" : less memory used
"keep original origin title/url and use it when needed" : typically when items are not in our feeds (friends, notes...)
"resolve bug where notes were not displayed" : now you can see your notes (items added outside feeds in google reader)
"align item title to top when height too big for the line" : some items with too long titles were unreadable
"select first entry in each list after focus gained" : yesterday i added focus to the list but now it works better : first item is always selected when opening the window
"use u to toggle unread-only status in items list (and shift-M is now an equivalent to the ****-A, to mark all items as read)" : nothing else to say. I did that because it's hard to do "shift-A" on the n900
"add keyboard shortcuts in items list for toggle read/unread status ("m"), starred status ("s") an shared status ("shift-s"). It s the same shortcuts as in the item view" : yeah now keyboard shortcuts in the items list !!!
"allow keyboard navigation in the internal browser" : keyboard here to : arrows, space, shift-space, ctrl-arrows
"in feeds/categories list, use "shift-s" to sync and "backspace" to close an opened category" : other usefull shortcuts

Now time to go to sleep

PS : fpp : the little blue line (or whatever color, depending of the n900 theme) on the left side is for viewing unread categories/feeds/items

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	fpp	2010-09-16 , 11:05
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Originally Posted by Twidi

Lots of little stuff tonight.
Here is a quick explanation of each commit :
(...)

"select first entry in each list after focus gained" : yesterday i added focus to the list but now it works better : first item is always selected when opening the window

"use u to toggle unread-only status in items list (and shift-M is now an equivalent to the ****-A, to mark all items as read)" : nothing else to say. I did that because it's hard to do "shift-A" on the n900

"add keyboard shortcuts in items list for toggle read/unread status ("m"), starred status ("s") an shared status ("shift-s"). It s the same shortcuts as in the item view" : yeah now keyboard shortcuts in the items list !!!

"allow keyboard navigation in the internal browser" : keyboard here to : arrows, space, shift-space, ctrl-arrows

"in feeds/categories list, use "shift-s" to sync and "backspace" to close an opened category" : other usefull shortcuts

Yay, fantastic ! And no need for icons anymore, at least in landscape mode... nice escape :-)

PS : fpp : the little blue line (or whatever color, depending of the n900 theme) on the left side is for viewing unread categories/feeds/items

Ah, right. I didn't get it because I'm always in "unread" mode... still feels a bit redundant, though.

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	fpp	2010-09-16 , 11:34
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(after testing)

Wel, it's officially official now... I hereby declare GRead the best Google Reader client on the N900, heaps above any grr version out there :-)

Browsing feeds & posts is a pleasure in landscape mode with the keyboard, and at least usable in portait.

At some point I thought "but why not add an 'o' (orientation) shortcut to toggle landscape/portait ?"... then realized what a stupid idea that was :-)

But here's another : maybe extend your "furtive" buttons system in view mode, adding, say, a circle in the middle between the arrows, that would swap orientations ?

Oh, and it's still missing "Fred mode", of course... but everyone needs to sleep, right ? :-)
(I'd try to add it myself, but then I'd have to redo it every day !)

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Twidi	2010-09-16 , 12:44
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I won't be able to work on the application for some days (little trip to Strasbourg) but next week i'll add a context menu on every screen !

Stay tuned (and thanks for the "best google reader application", it's what i think too

)

Last edited by Twidi; 2010-09-16 at 13:18.

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	grog	2010-09-16 , 14:29
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Originally Posted by fpp

(after testing)

Wel, it's officially official now... I hereby declare GRead the best Google Reader client on the N900, heaps above any grr version out there :-)!)

I heartily agree. Thanks Twidi for a great application.

The only two features that are still on my own wish list are:
- offline mode
- accelerometer-based orientation

Keep up the great work, but have a good time off too

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	grog	2010-09-16 , 16:42
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Actually one more note. I stopped using the Okuda Theme 'cause I couldn't see the text of the items in GRead. It's been mentioned in that thread that some apps didn't follow theme colours properly, which is why they had problems. Just something that maybe you could keep in mind, functionality (reading the items) is more important than eye candy of course, but I'd love to be able to go back to using Okuda, 'cause it's kewl