On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 09:45:03PM +0200, Lars Lindner wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Adrian Bunk <b...@stusta.de> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 09:16:38PM +0200, Lars Lindner wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Adrian Bunk <b...@stusta.de> wrote:
> >> > On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 02:45:48PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> >>...
> >> >> 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.
> >>
> >> This is a correct description, but this is IMO
> >> no a sane use case. Why do you set such a small
> >> number of cached items?
> >>...
> >
> > I even have valid use cases for low numbers in some of my feeds, but
> > that's unrelated to what I wanted to explain.
> >
> > Replace the two occurences of "30 items" with "1000 items" and the
> > number is no longer small, but the situation I wanted to show here
> > stays the same.
>
> Even with a large itemset: how should we help the user?
>
> We do offer two distinct features: item caching (for offline reading, later
> reading, whatever...) and item flagging (which implies keeping items).
>
> Both features can be used together and shouldn't prevent each other.
> You say that you do not like the resulting effect (of flagged items
> keeping new items from appearing), which I understand. But could
> please please provide an expected behaviour?
I was not saying that (or at least I did not want to say it).
I just wanted to answer the "What does the last line mean, then?",
since "Marked items are always saved to the cache." only has an effect
when the feed contains new items (or when the user just reduced the
number of cached items, but that's a rare case).
The topic which items to keep you had in mind is a different discussion.
> Regards,
> Lars
cu
Adrian
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