Ranchero-Software
Persist feeds sidebar open/close state
The first thing I do every time I open NNW (if it has been terminated) is hide the feeds sidebar. It would be great if this choice was saved so that this wasn't necessary. It would also make opening the app more seamless between when it had been suspended and when it was actually stopped, since this is what happens if it's just suspended.
iPadOS, but I assume this would be desirable behaviour on macOS as well, even though the mechanics of whether an app is/is not running aren't identical.
Confirmed issue in MacOS as well. Have to be careful not to quit and lose my crisp two-pane setup!
Years ago, in the days of NetNewsWire of Yore, we persisted collapsed sidebar — if you collapsed it, when you launched the app it would still be collapsed.
Which then led to a significant support issue — people kept reporting that the sidebar had disappeared!
But maybe that’s less of an issue these days. Maybe hiding/showing the sidebar is more of an understood thing. So maybe it wouldn’t be this crazy support burden.
But maybe that’s less of an issue these days. Maybe hiding/showing the sidebar is more of an understood thing. So maybe it wouldn’t be this crazy support burden.
Every native app on my system remembers if I've closed its sidebar, including Mail, Calendar, and Finder. I believe the benefits of adhering to this standard would outweigh any occasional confusion.
@brentsimmons This remains my sole frustration with NetNewsWire, which is otherwise solid and annoyance-free. Every time I launch the app, I'm met with a sidebar I don't want and have explicitly asked not to be shown hundreds, possibly thousands of times.
This was fixed on the main branch when I fixed the rest of the state restoration code.
