[FR]: Combined view

[krasniow]

Brief description of the feature request

I've recently migrated from Feedbro (Firefox extension) and all I feel that's missing is a view where articles are displayed sequentially in reverse chronological order, without the need to open each one individually in order to read them. This is the default/only view on Feedbro and it's also available on KDE's RSS reader, Akregator, where it's called "Combined View" and can be enabled via the View dropdown menu or the Ctrl+Shift+3 shortcut.

Infinite scrolling is used to load older articles on Feedbro, I don't know how Akregator implements it since I only reinstalled it to take these screenshots, but this layout could work just as well as a paged view if that is considered preferable.

Feedbro examples:

All feeds

Single feed

Akregator examples:

All feeds

Single feed

[martinrotter]

Questions:

this shows simplified excerpt of the article, right, also how full-long articles are opened in those programs? In new tab or?

[krasniow]

Questions:

this shows simplified excerpt of the article, right, also how full-long articles are opened in those programs? In new tab or?

Yes, I guess I said "articles" where I should have said "entries" in my opening post. It shows the summary/description, which is displayed in its entirety, no matter how long, whether you're looking at the mixed feed or a single one:

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Clicking the title opens the article (external URL) itself. On Feedbro it's always opened in a new tab, but that program's already inside a browser, so it's not really comparable. On Akregator it's opened in the internal browser, unless the program has been configured to use an external one, so exactly like RSS Guard, I believe.

[krasniow]

By the way, this is something I never noticed before making this FR:

Feedbro actually does include another kind of combined view, where the summaries are shortened. Longer ones can be clicked to expand them inline.

This may be a good alternative if unrestricted summaries sounds unreasonable. The main point is being able to see entries sequentially in a microblog-like feed rather than copying any specific design.

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