NetNewsWire 2.0b41 Change Notes
13 April 2005
This page lists changes to NetNewsWire since 2.0b37.
(You can download the current beta from the NetNewsWire beta page.)
Note
We’re in the final stages of finishing NetNewsWire 2.0—all the features of 2.0 are in place. The point of this release is to fix a bunch of bugs.
Backups
You should make backups of your NetNewsWire data. (Even once 2.0 has shipped, making backups is a good idea. It’s always a good idea—for other data too, not just for NetNewsWire.)
The two things to back up are your preferences and data folder:
- Preferences:
~/Library/Preferences/com.ranchero.NetNewsWire.plist - Data folder:
~/Library/Application Support/NetNewsWire/
Changes since 2.0b37
RSS parser
Fixed a bug introduced in the previous beta with parsing dates in some RSS feeds.
File downloads window
Fixed a bug where sometimes small files would have huge numbers for bytes downloaded.
Styles
Added BD Aqua Floating and BD Graphit Floating by Bartelme Design.
Added Mail style by Chris Clark.
Added Roxeteer01 by Visa Kopu.
Browser
Feed button
It’s now a + button, like the + button under the subscriptions outline. The echo is deliberate—the idea is that you’re adding a feed. The plus is subtly colored, to give a little indication that it’s special.
When you click the feed button, it un-highlights before the sheet appears. (Just like the + button under the subscriptions outline.)
Fixed a bug where sometimes the feed button would give you the URL for a previous page.
Fixed a bug with relative URLs and the feed button.
New tab command
The main window is brought to front.
Feed downloading
Global refresh interval: new options
More options were added to the global refresh interval (see the Downloading prefs pane): two hours, six hours, eight hours, ten hours, and twelve hours. (As much as we get people asking for 5-minute refresh intervals, we also get people asking for longer intervals.)
Refreshing feeds when global setting is set to manual
When the global refresh setting is manual only, feeds with custom refresh intervals should refresh. (Before, no feeds were getting refreshed automatically when the global setting is manual-only.)
Preferences
Fixed a bug where the playlist and genre names wouldn’t stick unless you hit return after entering them.
Fixed a bug where text fields on the sharing pane wouldn’t stick unless you hit return.
Old Prefer permalinks pref fix
There used to be a pref for preferring permalinks over external links when doing an open-in-browser, but the UI for that pref was removed. However, the pref was still being respected, which led to bugs sometimes for people who preferred external links to permalinks. Now NetNewsWire always uses permalinks.
Syncing
Sync crash fix
There was a common crashing bug that had to do with syncing browser tabs. Fixed. (Probably. I sent it to a few people privately, and they aren’t getting the crash anymore.)
FTP syncing
Probably fixed a bug when a username or password has an @ character in it.
Fixed a bug where ( and ) in computer name weren’t getting translated into an FTP-friendly _.
Combined View
Shift-clicking on a link opens it the reverse of your prefs (either in NetNewsWire or in your default browser, the opposite of your setting in NetNewsWire).
You can now option-click on the title (not in the HTML, in the title bar) to open-in-browser using the opposite of your prefs. (This is how traditional and widescreen views work too.)
Main window title
When you have a tab open with “(No title)”then the main window also displays “(No title)” instead of “(null).”
Subscriptions outline
Smart list refreshing
The Refresh command (or cmd-R) now works on smart lists: they rebuild their list of news items.
Fix for undeletable subscriptions with nonsense URLs
Fixed the main (probably only) cause of weird subscriptions that you can’t delete. This could happen when you subscribe to a nonsense URL instead of a real URL.
option-cmd-arrow expand/collapse
To expand all in an outline (subscriptions or sites drawer), type cmd-option-rightArrow.
To collapse all, type cmd-option-leftArrow.
(Note: the ; and ' keys do the same thing. Also, these keystrokes work in the Sites Drawer too.)
Subscriptions drag-and-drop fix
There was a bug where you could drag an item on top of the group *that it’s already in* and the item would get duplicated. Unsubscribing would unsubscribe the item and its duplicate. Fixed.
Subscriptions next-unread and expansion state
If you have set “respect expansion state” for next and previous unread behavior, then expanded groups will be skipped.
Subscriptions and left arrow
Restored the behavior where the left arrow collapses a group or does a collapse-to-parent.
Sites Drawer
More new feeds. (Lots of requests were made since the last beta.)
Vertical splitview redrawing
Worked around a bug in some versions of the OS where the vertical splitview wouldn’t get redrawn after it was resized when a web page is active.
Startup
NetNewsWire doesn’t make itself frontmost (under normal circumstances) now.
