On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 02:19 +0100, Holger Freyther wrote:
> Hi Freaks,
>
> department of confusion confirms zecke has been seen hacking Gtk for
> the last three hours. The result is a comparsion between Qts
> Interview Framework and Gtk's one and a RSS reader. If you consider
> that Gtk's stuff was created back in 2002 (and even earlier) it is
> actually quite good.
>
> Well http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/~freyther/FeedReader.png a
> screenshot, and the source http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/~freyther/
> openmoko-rssreader-0.0.1.tar.bz2 and it would be appreciated if svn
> would be made to work soonish.
Awesome! This is the one application that I _really_ wanted ;-)
> I decided to use libmrss as this is a small but powerful and rather
> complete reader and composer library. And the autofoo usage is quite
> clean and obvious. This allows me to only concentrate on the
> userinterface. As we have some designers and spec writers on this
> project I have a small list of questions.
Yes. We can work on this together. Harald and Werner are with me in
Germany now...so my time is almost non-existent to read / reply to
emails. I'm hoping to spend an hour or two with the designers sometime
this week.
> - How should the config dialog look like? How to add categories for
> the filter bar? Screenshots would be welcome. E.g. a quick add that
> shows a GtkEntry and a ComboBox to select the group and a complete
> management dialog that allows you to move and delete existing feeds?
>
> - HTTP authentication. I have never seen a private livejournal page
> how would a password dialog look like? What keyring do we have at
> OpenMoko? Where to cache passwords :)
We don't have this widget designed yet. I can work on this with the
designers this week(end?).
> - Integration into messages. The messages application could poll the
> feeds according to the SkipHours and then open the feed reader to
> download the feed.
>
> - Offline viewing of feed data. Should we cache the data? how much
> data should be cached? If a user presses refresh should we keep the
> old data in case of connection errors.
>
> - Should we cache images from the feeds?
I'm a big fan of caching this data. Currently I use a Nokia N73. The
feed reader is very simple but does its job. My biggest gripe is just
that it can't view offline content.
> - The "refresh all button", Is it bound to the active categroy? e.g.
> refresh all feeeds in the current category/filter or is it global?
We should probably have this as pull down action button. Something like:
* Refresh Subscription
* Refresh All Subscriptions
(http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Action_Button)
> - What should we do with the extra toolbox buttons. Currently they
> say "Rent me" and "Buy more Mate". I would not mind to display Ad
> Click advertising on these buttons but if you have a better use
> shout. E.g. one could control the font size of the TextView?
Hide them?
> - Commercial feeds (sorry both are german) like spiegel.de and
> heise.de only publish their headlines and force you to visit the real
> webpage. Should one try to display the HTML within the feedbrowser or
> switch to the webbrowser?
Hmm...the width is 480 so this might not be horrible. Have you tried
actually showing the html?
> - Is the SMS dbus interface specified yet? Would one send the URL or
> text of the article both?
Not that I know of. Mickey do you know?
> - How to report progress and errors? Should the Footer be used to
> display messages?
Yes. This was our idea. We thought that the background region of the
footer could be a status bar.
> - much more I forgot because I ran out of caffeine... and missed my
> last bus...
>
>
>
> My personal agenda for this is:
> - Use GAIM HTML tokenizer and display HTML inside the GtkTextView
> - Use ModelFilter and ModelSort for searching, sorting and
> filtering the feed
> - Fight with the Column Header sizing
> - Implement caching of feed data (e.g. in sqlite)
> - Do the loading of feeds inside a GThread
> - Instead of hardcoding the feed data use GConf
> (- Release the Qtopia version as well)
Thanks again for starting on this application. You just made my week ;-)
-Sean
