cedricbonhomme / newspipe

A web news aggregator.
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recast the top menu and global ui change #14

Closed cedricbonhomme closed 8 years ago

cedricbonhomme commented 8 years ago

Last time pyagg was discussed on LinuxFR an interesting comment made a series of remarks, most of them I find relevant.

I would like suggest and discuss here some change :

As this kinda breaking from the actual ui, I'd like your input so I don't start to mess things up in a way you won't accept to merge upstram.


cedricbonhomme commented 8 years ago

Good initiative. This is on my priorities (maybe with the categories for the feeds).

I am OK to remove the drop down "Articles" menu.
I think that it is a good idea to put the buttons "Mark all as read" and "Add a feed" at the top of the side nav. We have to think that this menu is hidden on small devices.
Moreover, we should not forget the "Fetch" button. Even if the manual retrieving is disabled on Heroku for normal users (without administrator rights). We can add the "Fetch" button just under "All feeds" in the side nav. And why not a Fetch button for each feed.
Maybe we can add a way to create a new feed with a kind of popup with just the address of the feed.

I admit that the "Filter" menu is a mess. Here is a proposition:


Original comment by: Cédric Bonhomme

cedricbonhomme commented 8 years ago

Fixed by #f9037d7


Original comment by: Cédric Bonhomme