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Article #1064NewsWatcher1.3bx...Now I have to find another news reader!!
From: Everette Allen
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1992 15:24
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1992 15:24
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I have used NewsWather 1.0.2 for quite a while and like it very much with a few exceptions. No along comes 1.3bx and I will have to switch to something else. Why?? It has become rn from the unix world!! I like the increased speed...but the mac user interface violations are not worth it. In 1.0.2 groups were bold if they had new traffic and pain text if not nice simple easy to understand. Bring it back!! The finder-like triangles in the left margin are good but just as awkward as in the finder to use. Give me an option to hide them. The use of the - sign to indicate read/unread is not as easy to spot as the bold/not indicator. The space bar --> next artical is not done in the same way as the unix rn (there it pages to the end of the art. and then goes to the next art. n is used to do --> next art.). Just make the pageup and pagedown keys work and some command key sequence or user definable keys (cmd space bar is not too bad:-) available. Stay with the mac interface. If I wanted unix news I would log on to my unix account and use that!! I don't really mean to flame because the new version is very fast and seems like it will have many good new features (menus that are not implemented should be grayed and stay that way) just please remember we need to best of the mac first...then unix :-). Still with 1.0.2... EVerette
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!rock!taco!everette@ncsuvm.cc.ncsu.edu From: everette@ncsuvm.cc.ncsu.edu (Everette Allen) Subject: NewsWatcher1.3bx...Now I have to find another news reader!! Message-ID: <1992Aug6.152459.20672@ncsu.edu> Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: NCSU Computing Center Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1992 15:24:59 GMT Lines: 19