[Ext] Brief 1.1 - feed reading extension

smacd75 · Post by **smacd75** » March 28th, 2007, 1:39 pm

Terrific extension!!!

It seems you and I share the same vision of what an RSS reader should be....keep up the good work!

Once you've added the ability to purge older stories from the database Brief will be perfect in my eyes.

Ancestor · Post by **Ancestor** » March 28th, 2007, 1:55 pm

nico(at)nc wrote:It seems that there are still few problems with 0.6 and Mac OSX: http://img480.imageshack.us/img480/3586/image3vx3.png

Darn. I have another guess on a fix, would you be able to test it if I sent it to you? I'm glad to see that at least the other problem is fixed.

smacd75 - thank you! The ability to purge old entries is already there in the next version. Brief 0.6 is ready and it is only waiting for translation to be finished.

nico(at)nc · Post by **nico(at)nc** » March 28th, 2007, 2:13 pm

Ancestor wrote:
nico(at)nc wrote:It seems that there are still few problems with 0.6 and Mac OSX: http://img480.imageshack.us/img480/3586/image3vx3.png

Darn. I have another guess on a fix, would you be able to test it if I sent it to you?

I don't use OSX (↓↓↓), but I know s.o. using it (the 2 screenshots are from him) who I can send it to check quickly.

pirlouy · Post by **pirlouy** » March 29th, 2007, 8:10 am

Ancestor, what do you think of userstyles.org rss "strange" behavior ?
http://userstyles.org/style/new_list/atom
Each time I update feed, there are some "unread" news. Yet, they're not updated/edited.

Ancestor · Post by **Ancestor** » March 29th, 2007, 10:55 am

pirlouy wrote:Ancestor, what do you think of userstyles.org rss "strange" behavior ?
http://userstyles.org/style/new_list/atom
Each time I update feed, there are some "unread" news. Yet, they're not updated/edited.

There's something weird going on, probably messed up encoding or something. It doesn't look fixable on Brief's side.

doeddeldom · Post by **doeddeldom** » March 29th, 2007, 1:40 pm

I just installed the 0.6 version from babelzilla. Great improvements!

After installation in 50% of the feeds i got double entries. e.g. http://www.aintitcool.com/
New entries show up only once. So it seems to be a happing only after an upgrade from 0.5.2. Maybe some initialization problem!?

Ancestor · Post by **Ancestor** » March 29th, 2007, 1:59 pm

doeddeldom wrote:I just installed the 0.6 version from babelzilla. Great improvements!

After installation in 50% of the feeds i got double entries. e.g. http://www.aintitcool.com/
New entries show up only once. So it seems to be a happing only after an upgrade from 0.5.2. Maybe some initialization problem!?

It's not a problem per se, it's expected. I made a not backward-compatible change in the way entries are hashed which causes the initial duplication. Unfortunately, it's unavoidable. I will put this issue in the release notes.

Could you elaborate which improvements you like? Knowing what's right is just as important as knowing what's wrong. :)

smacd75 · Post by **smacd75** » March 30th, 2007, 11:58 am

Just installed Brief 0.6 from babelzilla.....WOW!

I really like the 'delete' and 'star' buttons (as opposed to the old pull down menu)....nice touch.

Best of all I can choose the number of entries to save for each feed and decide how long I want to save them!

Still lightweight with all the feature I need....nice work!

Merlyel · Post by **Merlyel** » April 1st, 2007, 11:04 am

Brief 0.6
Right-clicking in the feed-panel (not on any feed but on empty space) throws an exception:

Code: Select all

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80070057 (NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE) [nsITreeContentView.getItemAtIndex]"  nsresult: "0x80070057 (NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE)"  location: "JS frame :: chrome://brief/content/feedlist.js :: anonymous :: line 186"  data: no]

though it does not affect Briefs work (as far as I've seen).

Can't disable "Show notification when updates are found" option. That's extensions.brief.update.showNotification, right? It is set to true, but the checkbox for this option is not checked. Maybe because of:

<preference id="extensions.brief.database.showNotification"
name="extensions.brief.database.showNotification"
type="bool"

in options.xul? At least after changing database to update it works for me

Ancestor · Post by **Ancestor** » April 1st, 2007, 11:36 am

Merlyel wrote:Brief 0.6
Right-clicking in the feed-panel (not on any feed but on empty space) throws an exception:
Code: Select all
Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80070057 (NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE) [nsITreeContentView.getItemAtIndex]"  nsresult: "0x80070057 (NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE)"  location: "JS frame :: chrome://brief/content/feedlist.js :: anonymous :: line 186"  data: no]
though it does not affect Briefs work (as far as I've seen).

Good catch, thanks!

Can't disable "Show notification when updates are found" option. That's extensions.brief.update.showNotification, right? It is set to true, but the checkbox for this option is not checked. Maybe because of:
<preference id="extensions.brief.database.showNotification"
name="extensions.brief.database.showNotification"
type="bool"

in options.xul? At least after changing database to update it works for me

Yeah, that was a typo, I have already fixed it.

doeddeldom · Post by **doeddeldom** » April 2nd, 2007, 11:35 am

Ancestor wrote:Could you elaborate which improvements you like? Knowing what's right is just as important as knowing what's wrong.

- the new 'tooltip'
- the new delete/star GUI. MUCH BETTER!

- and the options for purging old entries

doutor.zero · Post by **doutor.zero** » April 2nd, 2007, 1:02 pm

Ancestor,

I tried 0.6 and agreed that it's a big improvement over the previous one. Congratulations.

I had one small problem (please ignore it if this was reported before):

- The preferences aren't applied. I can only modify a option going in the about:config page.

Thanks.

Merlyel · Post by **Merlyel** » April 2nd, 2007, 1:16 pm

doutor.zero
Which prefs can't be applied? Everything (except that I wrote about yesterday) works fine for me.

doutor.zero · Post by **doutor.zero** » April 2nd, 2007, 3:37 pm

Merlyel wrote:doutor.zero
Which prefs can't be applied? Everything (except that I wrote about yesterday) works fine for me.

The option 'Open entries in new tab'. No matter if I select it or not, the option don't work until I modify it's entry in about:config.

Ancestor · Post by **Ancestor** » April 2nd, 2007, 4:12 pm

doutor.zero wrote:
Merlyel wrote:doutor.zero
Which prefs can't be applied? Everything (except that I wrote about yesterday) works fine for me.

The option 'Open entries in new tab'. No matter if I select it or not, the option don't work until I modify it's entry in about:config.

That's true. Brief 0.6 hasn't been released yet, mind you, for precisely this reason - it's still incomplete and has some bugs.