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Mark read tweets in a different color
Hi,
i switched from Choqok (http://choqok.gnufolks.org/) to Hotot recently and there is one feature is miss most: In Choqok it is possible to mark all previous tweets as read, after doing so, read tweets get a different color. This is very handy, because you can identify new tweets instandly.
See example: http://up.picr.de/9994973qwc.jpg (my own tweet is green, read ("old") tweets are blue, new tweets are white).
Please consider bringing that feature to Hotot! Tnx!
Klaus
Hi,
How does choqok know you have already read a tweet or not? Is there any automatic tracker to do it or we should click "mark as read" manually ?
Choqok has indeed a "Mark read"-button on top of the timeline.
If you look at http://www.kde.org/images/screenshots/resized/choqok.png you can see a smell button right of the "Action"-dropdown (it shows an envelope). After clicking this button all tweets change their color from white to blue.
I don't know if it's useful for Hotot.
For performance reason, Hotot only keep 200 tweets in each view. The timeline flows so fast that I cannot read all tweets indeed.
I think it is very useful.
My timeline is also flowing very fast and in Choqok i only displayed 100 tweets in my timeline. During the the daytime i don't want to miss tweets, but after 15 minutes or so i always have to search for the last tweet i read.
A workaround - maybe more simple to implement - would be a button "Clear timeline" as available in Tweetdeck or Sobees. After reading everything simply clear the timeline ...
Well, anyway, it's not hard to implement it. I will add a "Mark all as read" item in view menu.
@sesom are you aware that you can just leave the cursor on the last tweet you read, and the new tweets accumulate on top?
no need to search for the last tweet read. the new ones are all at the top. as long as you don't close hotot, it saves the position (even if you switch tabs).
easy and simple, imo. that's what I do.
I've just tried Hotot after putting up with TweetDeck for a couple of years and it looks really nice.
This is the one feature stopping me from switching right now. I use the "Clear all" feature of TweetDeck so I can quickly switch back and see new Tweets in each column. If there was similar functionality in Hotot that would be awesome.
