Re: [Straw-devel] on removing the subscriptions list from preferences

[Juri Pakaste]

On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 22:49, Jan Alonzo wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 04:52, Juri Pakaste wrote:
> > Let's keep the subscriptions preference tab as it is, until all the
> > manipulation operations can be performed on the main list, and until
> > subscribe tool can handle all the weird corner cases (that is, until
> > rssfinder has been modified to use the facilities in URLFetch.)
> 
> Yep.
> 
> > So, subscriptions list should allow, in addition to modifying feeds and
> > deleting them also moving them and sorting the list. Deletions and moves
> > should be possible for multiple feeds at a time. And all this should be
> > doable with the keyboard.
> 
> Sorting can be probably done through the column header. As for moving,
> how bout DND?

DND, absolutely; but there should be another, keyboard accessible way
also.

> 
> > (Oh, and on the topic of the subscriptions list, something I mentioned
> > on IRC but I guess no one was awake: is it intentional that right click
> > also selects the feed? I find it pretty weird.)
> 
> It's not intentional, most likely a side-effect.
> 
> > Subscriber tool should basically be modified to do async network IO and
> > it should, as a final option, allow the user to subscribe to whatever
> > URI he typed, whether or not anything could be found there. I'm not
> > quite sure how it works ATM.
> 
> Subscribe the user even if there's no feed there? what do you mean by
> this?

Basically a "yes I bloody well know what I'm doing, get out of my face
you stupid robot" button. Could be used to subscribe to known locations
even when said known locations happen to be temporarily broken. Or when
they are test feeds created just to test how well Straw copes with
broken locations :-)

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