Feedreader 3

Thanks Robertina. But like ppfr, I don't like this solution and I just can't understand the silence of the FR team on this subject where almost ALL rss readers out there don't request a mouse app to behave properly. Btw I found another rss reader capable of that incredible mouse move -could almost be a feature when I see FR or Rssbandit-, BlogBridge with an FR UI like and sync. Still trying to get another rss reader when FR with a little more polishing could be the best easily. A better communication (FR Connect has a proper mouse behavior? I'm sold!) from the team could be so useful for the product too. What is wrong with you people? Damn.

Thanks for the tip, katmouse helps. However, a few remarks:
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- with the mouse over the article pane, spinning the wheel will scroll the article to the bottom (this is what is missing from FR), but then the article *list* will start to scroll horizontally. This behaviour is kind of odd.
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- I still think that the mouse scroll issue should be fixed by FR and that the user should not require to add any piece of software.
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- besides, katmouse will impact all other running applications, it is not possible to limit its usage to FR.
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Hello FR team,

This feature is a must-have, have you planned to implement it and when please?

I really don't understand why it's so complicated to do something about the mouse scrolling support which is a pain in the ass. I don't want to use the spacebar, I want to use my mouse wheel because the news flow feels imo better.

FR is really great and neat and all, but it's almost destroyed for me because of a little lack of ergonomic.

Please do something or please, explain what is it that is so hard to do about that mouse wheel problem? (XP SP2, had the problem with MS Explorer 3.0 and Logitech MX 620 cordless, with three sets of drivers on three different machines -from Pentium M to C2D from 512M to 2Gb-. Nothing!). Rssowl got it right, Greatnews got it right. Feeddemon got it right. They all fail for the rest. More weird, only rss readers have wheel problems on any apps I have ever had.

I'm doomed. Puhleeeze!

I absolutely agree with you. FR is great from the data base management perspective, but ergonomics are 1 step behind. RSS Bandit also gets the mouse scroll thing right.
I also posted the same request under the thread "Mouse wheel to scroll the pane below the mouse pointer, not active pane", and it seems that we are at least 4 persons to complain about this.
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More generally, I am worried about FR's team lack of reply in the forum. I have posted like a full page of feature requests and bug reports, and the response rate I got was close to 5% (95% of my posts unanswered). The only positive answer I got was "we will consider in the next version of FR". But it seems that the next version will include loads of new stuff, and it does not look like existing features that need to be fixed / improved will get a lot of attention.
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For example, this feature request was initiated in November 2006, and it remains to be implemented, even to be answered to. It seems that developpers focus their answers to the "MySQL Edition Bug Reports" forum, for paying customers. Is this the policy?
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My advice to the development team for making FR a better piece of software is to consider seriously comments made by all customers (especially non-paying ones, because the user-base is larger), to focus on incrementally improving existing core features, especially ergonomics.
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ppfr, make that 5 persons...fully agree on the mouse scrolling

//vidar

Make that 6 ... at least.