Re: [Straw-devel] and a bit more about the representation of categories in the treeview

[Jan Alonzo]

On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 20:52, Juri Pakaste wrote:
> Now, if we stick with the current display, a bit more about the
> representation of categories in the treeview:
> 
> Should their names be in boldface if there are feeds under them that
> have unread items?

Should be. Just to let know the "user" that there's something going on
that category.

> Should they have a total-unread of all their children associated with
> them? Now we have:
> 
> Category1
>   Subscription1 (10)
>   Subscription2 (5)

If "Category1" is bold, yeah.

> Should we have:
> 
> Category1 (15)
>   Subscription1 (10)
>   Subscription2 (5)
> 
> Would that make things more or less clear?

It doesn't really matter (IMO) how many unread feeds on that category as
they are being shown in their respective items anyway. So I guess I
would favor 1 (If this is democracy that is :)

> 
> Oh yeah, and a bit related to that, just to document the code a bit
> (there's a comment for this in the class FeedListView too, though):
> 
> At the moment - that is, since yesterday evening - Straw ignores the
> first feed selection made, because with the current Gtk+, it's a false
> signal pointing at the first row, generated by Gtk+ when the user clicks
> any row at all for the first time. Of course we properly react to the
> second feed selection, because that's the one the user *really* made.
> The user notices nothing.
> 
> And once/if this bug is fixed in Gtk+, it will result in weird
> behaviour.
> 
> Just so you know.

Thanks for the info.
-- 
Jan Alonzo <address@hidden>