On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 02:45:48PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 10:58:40 +0300
> Adrian Bunk <b...@stusta.de> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 03:20:10PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> > > Package: liferea
> > > Version: 1.6.3-1
> > > Severity: normal
> > >
> > > Under the main Preferences / Feeds is a setting labeled "Feed cache
> > > handling -
> > > Default number of items per feed to save", and under an individual feed's
> > > Subscription properties / Archive is a setting labeled "Number of items to
> > > save". Both these preferences and their accompanying descriptions and
> > > context
> > > seem to indicate that they just affect the caching behavior, but on my
> > > installation they actually seem to be the (only) way to control how many
> > > of a
> > > feed's items are actually displayed at all. I think that what these
> > > options
> > > actually do should be clarified.
> >
> > Liferea displays all items it has from this feed, and these are
> > basically the cached items.
> >
> > What do you expect caching to do other than caching the items for
> > displaying them?
>
> >From "Subscription Properties / Archives":
>
> "The cache setting controls if the contents of feeds are saved when
> Liferea exits. Marked items are always saved to the cache."
>
> This implies that the cache settings are relevant to the saving of
> contents when Liferea exits, and not to the much more fundamental
> question of how many and which items are displayed initially.
"when Liferea exits" might actually be wrong, and should perhaps be
dropped.
> Obviously, if I mark an item, it's already displayed, which you are
> telling me means that it's already in the cache. What does the last
> line mean, then?
Let me make an example:
- cache limit 30 items for a feed
- 30 items are already cached
- the oldest cached item is marked
- a feed update brings 20 new items
Usually, the oldest 20 cached items would now be dropped from the cache.
But since the oldest item is marked, this item will not be dropped.
> Celejar
cu
Adrian
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