FeedLight is an RSS reader style for NetNewsWire and Vienna. Designed to be simple and compact yet flexible, it allows you to focus on what matters most: the content. The download package includes three color variants: Aqua, Graphite, and Metal.
The NetNewsWire and Vienna versions of FeedLight are identical save for one difference: the NetNewsWire version features a fixed header that remains at the top of the window as you scroll. The constraints of Vienna’s template system made it unfeasible to implement this.
Also note that the NetNewsWire version of the style hides some article details that are normally displayed (namely: categories, author links, and comment links) in order to reduce visual clutter. However, you can unhide these details by simply removing or commenting out the respective display:none; lines near the beginning of the stylesheet. (Right-click on the .nnwstyle file, select Show Package Contents, and open stylesheet.css in a text editor.)
(Note: This entry was redesigned on 2008 01 20. The original entry has been archived for posterity.)
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Whoa.. that looks pretty… XD Even if NetNewsWire and Vienna are only for Macs. ::has to get a MB soon::
Definitely the nicest NNW stylesheet I’ve seen.
These are fantastic! Thanks.
Definitely my favorite NNW style! I have seen a lot and tried quite a few but this is one that I know I will use for some time to come.
Yes, great looking theme, but (and yours isn’t the only one) when scrolling through a feed using the space bar, the ‘screens’ don’t match up (ie. the bottom of the screen goes up beyond the top of the screen loosing a few lines of copy).
You mind sharing a few details on why you switched? I use Vienna right now, but if there’s some good reasons to switch, I’d definitely give NNW a shot.
Love it! And have been waiting to find a Vienna style for some time!
Thanky you man. Kepp on the good work
Ups… I shouldn’t post comments in the middle of the night. This should of course be read as “Thank you man. Keep on the good work.”
Thanks a lot for this. It’s the best stylesheet for Vienna I’ve seen. I’ve also added this to mine to hide the Digg and email links Feedburner puts into some feeds:
.feedflare { display: none; }Seems to work well (at least for me).
christiaan: I am aware of this issue, but as far as I know, it’s a problem inherent to having a fixed header. If you’d like to disable the fixed header in NNW, you can find instructions for doing so in the template.html file.
Richard: There weren’t really any killer features that caused me to make the switch to NetNewsWire, and I even miss some of Vienna’s features (such as Growl support). I still maintain that Vienna is a fine piece of software, but with that said, like many open-source efforts, its UI design often leaves something to be desired.
NetNewsWire, on the other hand, really exudes the sort of polish that can only come from years of development. In addition, there are some nice touches like “Mark all headlines as read when opening a subscription’s homepage,” automatic marking of “dinosaurs” (feeds that haven’t been updated in a long time), and a more useful Activity window. I also appreciate the greater customizability it affords in terms of its interface.
For what it’s worth, I’ve also noticed that for whatever reason, NNW appears to download feeds faster than Vienna. It isn’t too noticeable if you don’t have a lot of them, but once you get into the triple digits, Vienna takes significantly longer to complete a refresh cycle. In my informal testing, NNW took 6 seconds to refresh ~150 feeds, while Vienna took about 25. This probably doesn’t matter much, as feed downloading is usually a background activity, but I thought I’d throw that out there anyway.
[EDIT: It just occurred to me that this is likely the result of my cranking the concurrent downloads up to 10 in the preferences. I have no idea how many feeds Vienna downloads simultaneously, but in any case, it doesn’t offer an option to set the number, so I still count that as a plus of NNW.]
Bryan: Great idea. I personally don’t see enough ads in my feeds to be bothered by them, but I can see how others might find them annoying. I’ve updated my styles to include that (and some additional) ad-blocking code. If this causes problems for anyone, please let me know.
Lovely! Thanks
Thank you for the style. I love it.
It looks like both styles are set to wrap at a specific length; any chance you could shut that off? I keep my NNW window open a bit wider and would like to make use of the space.
Ah, yeah, I applied a max-width to the content container to prevent line lengths from getting too long… but I suppose I should leave that up to the user. I’ve removed it from the code now.
beautiful! Thanks a million! Best.style.evar.
Nice theme, thanks. Could you tell me, which value is responsible for the font-size of the content? It’s a bit small on my screen.
Thanks in advance
Both NetNewsWire and Vienna offer a preference to set a minimum font size for article display, and that would be probably be the easiest way to increase font size.
If you must modify the stylesheet, however, the font-size of the content is declared in the following selector:
body > .body > .contentThanks very much.
Awesome, very clean. My eyes thank you.
Love it. Thanks. =)
this theme is awful.
a crime on the eyes, the worst piece of design i’ve seen on the web.
:)
Hello! Really great style. I do have a question, I want to see the categories, so I put some comments mark /* and */ around the “display none”, but then it looks strange (http://www.artypop.com/temp/nnw.jpg). What did I do wrong??? Thanks for your help and for your great style!
I like this theme much, but I wonder if there is a way to change the font from Helvetica to Lucida Grande. Thanks
Changing the font used in the style is fairly straightforward: Right-click on the .nnwstyle or .viennastyle file, and select Show Package Contents. Then open stylesheet.css with a text editor, and change the value of the
font-familyproperty inbody. Save your changes, restart your RSS reader, and you should be good to go.I loved this style for Vienna and now I can use it with NetNewsWire too. Great work.
Beautiful! Thanks a lot!
Best style ever.
hey, when i email an article to someone from netnewswire, it seems to have the header appear twice on the message in apple mail. here’s a picture: http://mt12.quickshareit.com/share/picture1e8812.png
Any idea why?
Ben: The style actually does have two headers, but one is supposed to be completely overlapped by the other so that you never see it. It looks like Mail is inserting a blank line before the second header for some reason I can’t understand, which is why you can see the bottom of that one peeking out.
I’m not sure there’s anything I can do about it, but here’s something you can try: Click anywhere on the fully-visible header, which should bring up a close button (x) in the top-left corner. Click on that, and you should have only one header left. Hope that helps.
Great work, the simplest and clearest NetNewsWire style ever. Thank you for this and keep up the good work!
This is a great feed, but I am unable to scroll sideways when viewing large images. Can this be fixed?
Love the theme. However, I mostly use the iPhone version of NNW which has a larger Title header. It’s a bit jarring to come to the desktop version and have it small. How would I increase the size of the (blue) header and title font?
QuarterSwede:
~/Library/Application Support/NetNewsWire/StyleSheetsFeedLight Aqua.nnwstyle) and select “Show Package Contents”stylesheet.cssin a text editorbody > .header h1 a) and edit the value of thefont-sizeproperty withingood work, thanx.