On 21/12/06 07:40, "Raul Gutierrez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Netnewswire for my money is almost a perfect app for browsing information > quickly and efficiently. It is oddly more maclike than even many of Apple's > apps. > > Netnewswire has many similarities to Entourage and there are a couple of > places where Entourage could improve with some creative cribbing. > > 1. When Netnewswire is in 3 column view analogous to Entourage's 3 column view > scrollbars disappear when they are unneeded replaced by a simple clean line > instead of an empty scroll bar well. For those of us with big screens or > without too many folders in our folder column, eliminating the scroll bars > when they are not needed is not needed would give a cleaner less busy window. > In my case I would probably never have to look at scroll bars except with rare > very long emails. As someone else pointed out, I don't see a lot of difference with no scroll bars displayed. > > 2. NetNewsWire allows navigation between panes with the arrow keys. While > tabbing between panes is logical, it forces a person to cycle between panes > whereas the arrow keys are a natural and logical way to move around the > window. Did you try shift-tab? > > 3. When scrolling through a list of unread feed titles NetNewswire never > misses marking feeds as read. In Entourage even if 'Mark Message as Read after > displaying for 0 Seconds' is set, scrolling too fast skips messages (Mail.app > is even worse at this forcing you to release the down arrow after each message > to get it marked as read). I'd consider that to be a feature, rather than a problem. Rapid scrolling through a list of emails like that is obviously intended to move to a new place in the list, rather than read messages. I wouldn't want them marked as read in that circumstance -- Barry Wainwright Microsoft MVP (see http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for details) The Entourage User's WebLog has moved! For hints, tips and troubleshooting go to <http://www.barryw.net/weblog/> -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
