[Straw-devel] 2 feature suggestions

[Steve Laniel]

1) Will we be able to copy text out of posts soon? If I knew
what was blocking that feature, perhaps I could help code it.

2) It'd be nice to be able to filter individual feeds on
various criteria. So for instance, I'd like people to be
able to visit my blog but block all posts on Linux if that
doesn't interest them.

The UI for that would be pretty straightforward: right-click
on a feed and up comes a 'Filter' dialogue box. The dialogue
I have in mind looks like the packet filter in Ethereal.
There would be a list of standard XML tags from the RSS
spec, like 'category' or 'author', a list of predicates ('is
equal to,' 'contains' etc.), and a fill-in field for the
value ("Author contains 'laniel'").

Then there could be a global filter, applying the
feed-specific filter UI to every subscribed feed. This could
get messy, though, because you'd want users to be able to
see which filters are applying to each feed -- so you'd want
the UI to indicate 'Global filters applying to this feed'
and 'Filters which apply just to this feed.'

It's a thought. I've never done any Python or GNOME
development, but I'd love to help out.

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