Re: [Straw-devel] Feature Requests, etc.

[Juri Pakaste]

On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 10:35, Jan Alonzo wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 09:48, Steven Garrity wrote:
> > 2. Terminology (more a question than a request): Why the term "Pool" (as 
> > opposed to "Refresh"). Refresh seems a more common/familiar term (hence 
> > the default refresh gnome icon).
> 
> Yeah, we should fix this. "Poll" is not really a user term and refresh
> seems to be tied with web browsers (e.g. Refresh -> "reload this page
> again"). We have to come up with something that is more related to
> feeds, items, etc..

Yeah, I suppose Poll isn't the clearest term possible. Dunno about
Refresh, it might be ok. Fetch? I'm not sure I like that, it sounds like
Straw should try to fetch something you don't already have. I'm not a
native speaker.

> 
> > 
> > 3. Wide Screen View: 
> > http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/features/widescreenview.php
> 
> This has been discussed, 
> 
> http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/straw-devel/2003-11/msg00036.html
> 
> Basically, it takes up horizontal space. This is OK in Mac but in PCs,
> where screen resolution and monitor sizes varies, it's hard to decide
> whether it's a good idea or not. 

When we get around to implementing different views - maybe for 0.23 - we
might consider doing that, too, though.

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