Recent changes to feature-requests

Newgroup Dialog Too Small And Not Resizable

tuco — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 06:16:11 -0000

Newsgroup Listing has a design issue. Newsgroup names can be loooooong. But OSXnews gives the user a small, fixed-size dialog with only a small vertical scroll list to view newsgroups names in.

With no horizontal scroll bar and a dialog you cannot resize means you cannot read the entire name of many newsgroups. Um, why impose such a restriction. My screen is large!

Couple of points

Anonymous — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 11:06:04 -0000

I've just started using OSXNews and am very impressed with the program. Fast, simple and very Mac-like (unlike other newsreaders I've tried.

I'd just like to mention a couple of interface issues:

1) It's impossible to move/sort subscribed newsgroups in the LH pane. It would help to be able to sort them into some order other than that in which they're subscribed. Even the normal feature of clicking on the pane header to sort alphabetically would help.

2) there is insufficient white space around the program icon, such that when it is used in the Dock it interferes with the adjacent icons.

Two small paoints, but functionally the program seems very good so far. Thanks.

web page needs screenshots

Anonymous — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 19:28:03 -0000

The web page needs more than one screenshot. I think I'm not untypical
in that II want to have a look at what a program looks like before I go to
the trouble of downloading, unpacking, and configuring it.

For example, the one(!) screenshot I could find does not tell me if
OSXnews does proper threading. The threading support is the primary
reason why I do not use Apple's Mail.App – without real threading, I won't
try using mailing lists, and I do need those.

Regards,
Christopher Creutzig
(insert @ and append .de for email address)

New Toolbar Icon's

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:21:54 -0000

Though your application indeed looks alot like Mail & really feels like any
other real Mac OS X Application, i must say your toolbar icons really takes
away that feeling.

If you would look at applications like Camino & NetNewswire, to name a
few examples, you'll find they use much more melow colors & thinner
outlines.

Ofcourse this ain't a bug or a new feature but still i hope you, as a Mac
User, will come to the same conclusion & maybe one of the contributors
can edit the icons so they look more Maccish

suggestions

Anonymous — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 09:10:17 -0000

program looks good,

would like the following to be added, unless i am missing something

1) date to be made into short format, at present takes up too much space

2) would like to know if messages have attachement, indication of size

3) would like to be able to open selected attachments.

thanks

robin..

Ability to set arbitrary outgoing headers

Pete Verdon — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 17:36:20 -0000

Specifically, I need to be able to set the Moderated: header (I have the
relevant permissions on my news server). Conceivably, other people might
need to set other things (including their own X-foo headers) so a general
mechanism for setting arbitrary headers would be better than special-
case Moderated: support. The Windows program XNews had this
behaviour.

Together with this, some sort of persistance so that I can specify
particular headers only once for the group that needs them (and not for
others) would be very useful.

Make smilies less intrusive

Matt Wills — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 12:33:22 -0000

Smilies appear when they are not intended or wanted.

For instance:

At comp.databases.filemaker, you might see someone
posting something relative to a relational database in
a Table::Field format (TableName, two colons, FieldName).

One I am looking at now Is supposed to be
Product::ProductID (that is, a colon followed by an
uppercase P. It appears on my display as a smilie with
his tongue out.

Do one of two things, or both:

Make smilies option, or make their display more intuitive.

Matt

Text convention

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 02:41:17 -0000

Have composing a message honor text conventions, such
as "two returns starts a new paragraph with a line in
between."

No longer a new user

Matt Wills — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 14:00:26 -0000

Can we get rid of the "Getting Started" message once we've gotten
started?

New identities

Anonymous — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 12:32:46 -0000

Hi,
An interesting feature would be to have several identities to send
messages from, so we can have aliases, and even more, to have one
identity per server.
Sometimes I do not use the same name on every servers.
Thanks