Re: Improve Emacs usability - newsticker

[Nicola Manca <nicola.manca85@gmail.com>]

On 14/05/20 12:25, Nicola Manca wrote:
> Hallo,
> 
> First time I write here, so let me start saying thank you for the great 
> job your doing with Emacs!
> 
> Trying to evolve into an emacs-centered lifestyle, I found out 
> newsticker-tree to read RSS feed. I found it pretty comfortable,
> in particularly if you are used to liferea or akregator.
> 
> However there are some usability improvements that would make it almost 
> an out-of-the-box replacement of these graphical softwares. I was not 
> sure if this is the right place where to discuss this or if I should 
> send a 'feature request' bug report. However, since there are a lot of 
> discussions about making life for new users easier, these are 
> suggestions that may be valuable.
> 
> I'm sorry for the ordering, I just wrote them down what as they came up 
> in my mind.
> 
> - Import opml does not preserve the tree structure, new groups have to 
> be created and populated.
> 
> - Feeds arrangement needs to be save continuously by pressing 's', this 
> is total counter-intuitive and, even if I was aware of it, many times I 
> did save and found out my feeds spread around, again.
> 
> - I cannot sort groups as I do with feeds (M-<up/down>)
> 
> - There is no easy way to remove feeds as to insert them, that's totally 
> absurd from my point of view.
> 
> - Focus does not follow the cursor, this is quite uncomfortable when you 
> want to operate on a feed you have the cursor on, but the highlighted 
> one is another.
> 
> - Some operations are incredibly slow, marking 'old' a feed with ~100 
> items takes several seconds.
> 
> - It would be quite handy if the feed's displayed name would correspond 
> to the label assigned, some feeds have an incredibly long name that 
> doesn't fit the right window (if you keep it at a reasonably width).
> 
> - Even if i disabled the visualization of icons next to a feed name, 
> those who were already downloaded remained there.
> 
> These are the small usability issues I found so far. They may seems 
> minor but in my experience are those small stuff may be quite relevant 
> for new users.
> 
> cheers,
> Nicola Manca

Forgot to mention, I'm using GNU Emacs 28.0.50, built with:
--with-nativecomp --with-imagemagick --with-xwidgets --with-x

cheers,
Nicola