Display options

This page controls the display and presentation of Awasu.

• Visual style
  Controls the overall appearance of Awasu.

  Several styles are installed as standard but you can also download more styles.
• Smart docking window
  Shows helper markers when dragging windows around in Awasu.
• Show sidebar
  Shows the Sidebar window .
• Lock toolbars
  Locks the toolbars to their current positions so that they cannot be moved.

Browser windows

• Use
  Lets you choose what to use as Awasu's embedded browser.

  If you choose Mozilla, you must have already downloaded and installed the Mozilla ActiveX control.
• Enable tabbed browsing
  Controls whether Awasu can have more than window open at once.
• Window tabs
  Controls where window tabs should appear.
• Colored window tabs
  Shows window tabs using different colors.
• Navbars
  Controls whether navbars should be initially visible or hidden when opening windows.
• Simple navbars
  Shows simplified navbars (to minimize clutter).

My Channels display options

• Auto-show My Channels
  Automatically shows My Channels when the last browser window is closed.
• Show unread item counts in My Channels
  Shows the number of unread items each channel has.
• Show how many channels are in each My Channels folder
  Shows how many channels are being shown in each folder.
• Always show channels with update errors in My Channels
  Forces channels that have had too many update errors to always be shown in My Channels, regardless of any channel filter settings.

Channel window display options

• Max. item pane size
  Limits the size of the channel window item panes.

  This option is provided so that they don't take too much space away from the browser pane. You can always override this limit by choosing the Size to fit context menu option (or pressing Control-F7) twice quickly in succession.
• Auto-hide feed items
  Automatically hides the item pane when feed items are opened.
• Brief headers
  Shows only a brief header in the channel summary pages.
• Brief feed items
  Shows only brief feed items in the channel summary pages.

Workpad display options

• Auto-show workpads
  Automatically shows workpads when items are added.
• Auto-hide workpads
  Automatically hides workpads when items are opened or removed.
• Auto-remove items from workpads
  Automatically removes items from workpads when they are opened.

Default content presentation

Awasu gives you a great deal of control over how your feed content is presented. Here you can set the default settings that will be used to control the presentation of each channel. These can be overridden individually for each channel in their Channel Properties dialog.

You can choose which template file will be used to set the overall look and feel of the channel summary pages. The Layout parameter specifies where the item pane will appear within the channel windows. You can also choose which feed items you want to see, how far back you want to see them from and how the feed items should be presented.

Awasu comes with several channel templates files installed 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.