westoncb/hndesktop

A Kotlin/Swing desktop application front-end for Hacker News

hndesktop's Issues

Use WebLAF

I kind of don't like the hackernews website design so i really could need a desktop client but HNDesktop ist really beautiful ;)
Maybe you could use a LAF that looks a bit nicer? A really good one is WebLAF: https://github.com/mgarin/weblaf

Use Firebase SDK

If I'm not mistaken we can retrieve data much more efficiently this way, and have a better mechanism than polling to get updates on changed content.

No side scroll from gesture

Doesn't seem to support side scrolling gesture from a touchpad. Up and down work perfectly fine.
Trying from Debian 3.16.43-2 and Gnome 3

Webview toggling breaks after one use

If you press the 'View page' button in the upper right corner, the first time it will successfully replace the comments panel with a webview component. But on all subsequent attempts, the webview component will not load the page.

Make executables for macOS, Windows, Linux

Optimize comment rendering

Right now we use one JTextPane (which does HTML rendering [since the HN API gives back html for comments)] per comment, and showing a UI with tons of these can make things sluggish, especially on scrolling. Is there a more performant way of rendering comments?

Maven build fails due to missing javafx dependency

Fresh Linux Mint 18.2 (Ubuntu 16.04) install, with apt install maven followed by mvn package, yields a bunch of lines of output and then

[INFO] Compiling Kotlin sources from [/home/wchargin/git/HNDesktop/src/main/java]
[INFO] Module name is HNDesktop
[ERROR] /home/wchargin/git/HNDesktop/src/main/java/App.kt: (5, 8) Unresolved reference: javafx
[ERROR] /home/wchargin/git/HNDesktop/src/main/java/App.kt: (6, 8) Unresolved reference: javafx
[ERROR] /home/wchargin/git/HNDesktop/src/main/java/App.kt: (7, 8) Unresolved reference: javafx
[ERROR] /home/wchargin/git/HNDesktop/src/main/java/App.kt: (8, 8) Unresolved reference: javafx
[ERROR] /home/wchargin/git/HNDesktop/src/main/java/App.kt: (72, 20) Unresolved reference: JFXPanel
[ERROR] /home/wchargin/git/HNDesktop/src/main/java/App.kt: (223, 13) Unresolved reference: Platform
[ERROR] /home/wchargin/git/HNDesktop/src/main/java/App.kt: (224, 31) Unresolved reference: WebView
[ERROR] /home/wchargin/git/HNDesktop/src/main/java/App.kt: (225, 34) Unresolved reference: Scene

I haven't used JavaFX or Kotlin, but I see that it's not mentioned in the pom.xml anywhere. Perhaps you need to add a dependency?

Maven and Java versions:

$ mvn -version
Apache Maven 3.3.9
Maven home: /usr/share/maven
Java version: 1.8.0_131, vendor: Oracle Corporation
Java home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "linux", version: "4.10.0-32-generic", arch: "amd64", family: "unix"

Use dependency management (e.g. Maven or Gradle)

Make links in comments clickable

Right now they appear in blue like hypertext, but clicking does nothing.

Show user user profiles when user names are clicked on

Update UI when data changes

For example, when new stories show up on the front page, automatically update the UI to reflect this.

Use System Look and Feel

Have you tried the native UI Look and Feel?

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/lookandfeel/plaf.html
Here is the code example I'm referring to

public static void main(String[] args) {
    try {
            // Set System L&F
        UIManager.setLookAndFeel(
            UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());
    } 
    catch (UnsupportedLookAndFeelException e) {
       // handle exception
    }
    catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
       // handle exception
    }
    catch (InstantiationException e) {
       // handle exception
    }
    catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
       // handle exception
    }

    new SwingApplication(); //Create and show the GUI.
}