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> - major CPU hog!!! this bug needs to go! Really!!! It doesn't happen > "sometimes"  as you mention in the read.me, it happens ALL the time on > my PowerBook G4 667mhz and it EVEN slows down a G5 dual processor till > it feels like a G3. THIS IS A SHOWSTOPPER!! Yeah I'm actually very aware of this problem and have been working on a solution.  I have been able to eke out some gains but nothing substantial. I actually do my development on a 12" PowerBook G4 867 MHz and it only takes 10-15% of my processor.  Admittedly that is much more then I'd like but it's understandable considering the amount of screen real-estate I have to redraw 24 times a second to keep it on the smooth side. Slowing down a dual G5 processor until it feels like a G3 seems a bit suspect. You might be seeing this kind of a slow down due to the dotted line that appears when the preference pane is open.  This is a MAJOR processor hog and has been removed from the next version.  It was unnecessary and doesn't even look as cool as I first thought ;) My current plan is to use OpenGL to offload the drawing routines to the graphics card.  This should make a major difference but it will require a extensive rewrite so I've put it off until the version after next. > - Dual screen: the ticker should be placable on the screen you wont it > to be on: now I cant control it. Funnily enough I just finished implementing that last week when someone else asked for it, it will be in the next version coming out by the end of this month hopefully. > - Scrolling: stops sometimes in left corner and then 1 word remains > after wich words start scrolling until that word I'm not sure what you're talking about.  This sounds like the Feed Titles?  If so this is by design.  The titles remain so show the user what Feed the entries scrolling past belong to.  It's more of a use when there are multiple feeds; the old feed title gets pushed out by the new feed title. You can disable this on the preference pane. > - order of display of headlines: I have no clue if there is any order > or not? I would like to be able to control this myself The entries are displayed in the order they appear in the feed. The feeds are polled in the order they appear in the preference pane (the next version allows the user to drag them to change the order). They may not be displayed in the same order though; a poll on a particular feed may take longer then another, the first one to return is shown first. > - update time: who says it can only be 30 minutes? Come' on this is > something I would like to set myself and if possible per feed! Yeah you're right.  I have been planning on implementing some way to configure this after I expand the polling routines.  It is dangerous though; some idiot would gladly set it to poll slashdot.org every ten seconds and then yell at me when he gets blacklisted. > Other then this: again a potentially good RSS feeder. Thanks!

And I of course appreciate the registration as well ;)