Minor release: NewsFox 0.8.2

[R Pruitt]

Newsfox 0.8.2 is released. This is the parts of 0.8.3 that didn't require translation.

• Feed parser improvements
• Number of unread articles in search groups (bug#17354)
• Tooltips in article pane
• User defined default article sort
• OPML export of single groups(context menu)
• Firefox 3.0beta1 support
• Minor fixes
• Cleaner deletion method
• Feed source displayed
• Single refresh/cancel button
• About link on help menu
• User defined icons

The number of unread articles in search groups can be turned off in about:config: newsfox.override.showSearchUnread. The computations can be burdensome with many feeds/search folders or a slow computer. In 0.8.3, you will be able to set this preference group by group, and then this preference can be used to globally turn off #search unread.

Article tooltips can be turned off in about:config: newsfox.advanced.articleTooltip. There is some overhead with computing tooltips due to how Firefox 3 handles tooltips on trees, which is much worse than Firefox 2. The body tooltip shows up when hovering over the right 50% of the title.

To make a user defined default sort, set the about:config preferences newsfox.sorts.columnX and newsfox.sorts.directionX where X is 0, then 1, then 2, etc.. For example, the default is newsfox.sorts.column0="date" and newsfox.sorts.direction0="descending". To sort by date and then unread status (to put unread articles at the top), you can have
newsfox.sorts.column0="date"
newsfox.sorts.column1="read"
newsfox.sorts.direction0="descending"
newsfox.sorts.direction1="descending"
You do need to have newsfox.sorts.column0="none" in order to have no sorting, otherwise the default will happen. In fact, only the first letter of any of these preferences is ever looked at by NewsFox: newsfox.sorts.column0="d" is the same as "date". The columns are "flag", "title", "read", and "date".

Deleted articles are now marked with strike-thru text until the next feed/group is selected at which time they are deleted from display. This allows the column sorting in the article pane to remain the same, while the code remains clean.

NewsFox now checks for icons in the images subfolder of the user newsfox folder. For example, place a (16x16) png file in [your_prefix]/newsfox/images/check.png and it will be your refresh button in NewsFox. A list of such icons is in the beta release notes.