A couple of follow-up wishlist items for the Combined View in NetNewsWire:
- Option-clicking on one of the disclosure triangles should toggle all of the items in the current view open/closed (like the finder does with folders).
- When using the space bar to go to the next unread item, I’d like the next unread item to be at or near the top in the viewable area, not at the bottom. I don’t like reading at the bottom of the window, feels cramped to me.
- ‘Arrow’ing down should scroll in the current post before it jumps to the next post.
Again, I highly recommend trying out this view - Brent did a great job on it.
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Brent Simmons adds this Comment:
Thanks, Alex, good comments.
My replies…
The Finder doesn’t seem to use option-click to mean collapse all or expand all. When expanding, it does do a recursive expand. (It expands all the sub-folders.)
I added a couple new keyboard shortcuts in 1.0.3b2: ; does a collapse-all, ‘ does an expand-all, and \ does a collapse-all-read-items.
I agree about the space bar — it should work more like the down arrow when it comes to scrolling the headline up a bit.
I don’t agree that the arrow should scroll the current post. The arrow always means go to the next item. The space bar is a kind of pager; it scrolls the current item if it needs to be scrolled.
June 20th, 2003 at 12:22 am
Alex adds this Comment:
Awesome, I just downloaded it and the extra keyboard shortcuts are great!
June 20th, 2003 at 12:44 am