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Allow multi-line items in feed- and articlelist #573

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rieje opened this issue Jul 2, 2017 · 2 comments
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Allow multi-line items in feed- and articlelist #573

rieje opened this issue Jul 2, 2017 · 2 comments
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rieje commented Jul 2, 2017

I find that for some of my feeds, the headline for items are very long:
agdonw3hjdk59wfee6awux6r1khm

I don't want to truncate the characters because that removes context and information about the item. A solution to this would be to allow a textwidth to be set for headlines and/or splitting a single line into multiple lines, which would vastly improve readability (a set textwidth like 70-80, for example).

For example, instead of the shown output in the picture above, an option for an alternative would be something like:

Item 1  |  July 02 17:01  | 1.0K
Cascade Complete ActionPacs Dishwasher Detergent, Fresh 
Scent 78 Count $12.12 @5% susbribe & save--$10.42 @15% 
subscribe & save @Amazon

which is far more readable.

P.S. I don't think there's a way to have a thumbnail image shown next to each item, right? For example it would be incredibly useful to show the Youtube thumbnail or Slickdeals thumbnail next to the respective item to provide context that would otherwise not conveyed through text-only. I know that newsbeuter can run arbitrary programs through macros(?) but I still can't think of a way to accomplish this.

@Minoru Minoru added the feature label Jul 2, 2017
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Minoru commented Jul 2, 2017

Not sure how hard that would be to implement, or if it's even possible with STFL. Thanks for the idea though!

As for thumbnails: text console won't let us show images, and Newsbeuter doesn't support framebuffer.

@Minoru Minoru changed the title [feature request] Ability to format multi-lines for each item and text width for headlines Allow multi-line items in feed- and articlelist Jul 2, 2017
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Minoru commented Jul 2, 2017

Edited your post to upload the screenshot to GitHub, so it won't expire like it did in the previous issue.

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