Display options

This page contains options that control the display and presentation of Awasu:

• Visual style: Controls the appearance of Awasu. Two styles are installed by default but you can also download more styles.
  
  
• Embedded browser: Lets you choose between Internet Explorer and Mozilla as Awasu's embedded browser. If you choose Mozilla, you must have already downloaded and installed Mozilla (not Firefox). Also, you must register Mozilla's ActiveX control. Awasu will open a dialog to guide you through the process (this only needs to be done once).
  
  
• Enable tabbed browsing: Turn this on to have a new window opened for each channel and plugin. If it is disabled, a single, full-sized window will be used for all purposes.
  
  
• Window tabs: If tabbed browsing is enabled, this setting controls whether the window tabs appear at the top or bottom of each window.
  
  
• OneNote-style tabs: Controls if OneNote-style window tabs should be used.
  

• Default navbar: All browser windows have a navbar that shows the current URL and navigation buttons. This setting controls whether navbars should shown or hidden by default when a windows is first opened.
  
  
• Simple navbars: Reduces the number of buttons in the navbars to minimize clutter.
  

• Auto-show Workpad: Automatically shows the Workpad's Read-me list when new items are added to it.
  
  
• Auto-hide Workpad: Automatically hides the Workpad's Read-me list when items are opened from it.
  

• Auto-remove items from Workpad: Automatically removes items from the Workpad's Read-me list when items are opened from it.
  

• Auto-show My Channels: Automatically shows My Channels if no windows are open.
  

• Show unread item counts in My Channels: Shows the number of unread items in each channel in the My Channels window.
  
  
• Always show channels with update errors in My Channels: Controls whether channels that have had too many consecutive update errors should always be shown in the My Channels window, regardless of any channel filter that may be active.
  
  

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• Max. item pane height: By default, the size of the item pane is limited to prevent it from taking too much space away from the browser pane. This option controls how space is available for the item pane. You can override this limit by choosing the Size to fit menu option (or pressing Control-F7, by default) twice quickly in succession.
  
  
• Show brief channel summaries: Channels often include information about the editor, webmaster, copyright, etc. which will be shown in the channel summary pages. Enable this option to omit these details.
  

• Auto-hide feed items: Enabling this option will cause the item pane to automatically hide itself whenever you click on a channel item. This frees up additional space for the browser pane.

Default content presentation

Awasu provides a great deal of control over how feed content is presented. Here you can set the default settings that will be used to control the presentation of each channel. You can choose how far back you want to see feed items from, which template file will be used to set the overall look and feel of the channel summary pages, which feed items will be shown (all of them, only unread ones or only new ones) and how they are presented (all content, a short excerpt or a plain-text version). The Layout parameter specifies where the item pane will appear within the channel windows.

These settings can be overridden individually for each channel in their Channel Properties dialog.

Awasu comes with several channel templates files as standard but feel free to write some of your own! And if you do, send them in and we'll include them on the web site for everyone to download.