So you won't be able to mark a news as unread ever again once you open a news if you set quiterss as follows
- Select "Options > Feeds > Reading > Mark news as read > After switching to another news"
The only way to trick quiterss into marking back a news as read is to select said news then select one more news (that is marked as read already), right click and mark read/unread, that way after switching to a different news only the last news will be marked again as read and the first one will stay unread
Another way to trick quiterss is to set it as follows
- Select "Options > General > Reopen last opened feeds on startup"
- Check "Options > Feeds > General > Open the news"
Once you set quiterss, select the news, mark the news as unread, close quiterss and open it again. that way when you switch to a different news it won't change to unread.
So as you see the "Mark news as read > after switching to another news" option is unusable. I think an exception should be added to the source code so news are marked as read when switching news EXCEPT if the user strictly mark the news as unread. and optionally the dialog could be modified to "after switching to another news (except if marked as unread)"
Hi,
if you don't want QuiteRSS to behave this way just disable the option
Mark news as read -> After switching to another news.
Kind regards,
Sheldon
But if you want to keep the option enabled instead of resetting the news to "Unread" you could mark it as "Starred" and use the pre-defined filter "Show Unread or Starred".
I said this optios was unusable so of course I have it disabled
thank you but I'd rather keep this option disabled. lets just wait for some developer to fix the bug
Sorry, but there is no bug to fix.
i guess there is a general misunderstanding from your side. The "Reading" tab provides different readng behaviour settings because different people have different reading preferences.
if you enable the option you are talking about the reading behaviour is exactly as the option says. Whenever you switch from one news to another the initial news gets marked as "Read".
The fact that is doesn't fit to your prefered behaviour doesn't make it a bug. But from your perspective you are right. This option is of no use for you. That's why you should disable it. Other users with different preferences may come to another conclusion.
Then the fact that I can trick quiterss in 2 ways is a bug
Look, when software does not behave the way it is supposed to do, that's called a bug. even if you change my mind, if I stop using quiterss for a year and then I start using it again, I won't be able to mark a news back as read and so that will look like a bug
there are 4 ways to solve this bug