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Google Reader Minimalistic

Removes all the chrome from Google Reader and just gives you a bare bones interface

heres created a script to strip out the header and footer from google reader.

The end result is a screen that actually fits on my laptop alot better especially when you collapse the left hand navigation bar (with the arrow).

**New - Added a video of this script

Keyboard shortcuts that come in handy are

w - toggle fullscreen (shows search bar again)

existing shortcuts

g t - go to tag
g u - go to subscription
g s - go to starred items

j - next item
k - prev item
s - star item

u - toggle left sidebar




Jun 19, 2008
anemos Scriptwright

Just thought I'd let you know unsafeWindow.AK() changed to BK().. currently my solution though is to trigger the "u" keyboard event two times, hides/shows the nav-bar, this way googles own JS tells it to refresh the view.

Another solution would be to use regexp to search for the function and trigger it.
 
Jun 18, 2008
Scott Cowan Script's author

Thanks Danny, I'm glad I could help
 
Jun 18, 2008
Danny Bartlett User

Awesome! Kudos for the speedy fix. This is my favourite script by far.
 
Jun 18, 2008
Scott Cowan Script's author

Hi Danny, I've just updated with a fix to ignore Cmd+W and Alt+W in addition to Ctlr-W let me know if you have a problem
 
Jun 17, 2008
Danny Bartlett User

One thing I find REALLY ANNOYING which didnt happen before - Command + W on the mac (Same as Control + w) does not close tab anymore, but instead hides/shows the header. I'm using Firefox 3.0
 
Jun 13, 2008
Scott Cowan Script's author

Just updated to remove the blue border around news items

Thanks merttt, it's really cool to hear, sadly there's no greasemonkey on my windows mobile.

I'm not sure what to do with those boxes, I just leave the subscriptions collapsed all the time but I could see how its a problem since it doesn't scroll
 
Jun 13, 2008
merttt User

Great script. I find it particularly useful on my N810 - the screen is so limited that removing as much cruft as possible helps a LOT. I made one small modification - I added these IDs: "selectors-box","addbox" to get rid of the two boxes on the left side above the subscription list.

Thank you for sharing your script.
 
Jun 13, 2008
Scott Cowan Script's author

Thanks anemos, I've added that in there and your right this is the only place its documented
 
Jun 12, 2008
anemos Scriptwright

Hei, great script. I've got an idea for improvement though!
As i noticed it doesn't recalculate windows size whenever you hit "w" so some elements are hidden in "full screen". I'm quite sure this ISN'T a feature, but a bug. A solution is to add this at the end of function toggle_gr():

unsafeWindow.AK();

unsafeWindow basically says to use the pages own javascripts, not limited to the functions within greasemonkey. Now don't ask me how i found out that this function recalculates the size of the window, it was like finding a needle in a haystack, i guarantee! (doubt it is documented anywhere, and GReaders .js file is hellish..)
 
Mar 13, 2008
cintra User

Hei Scott and thanks. It was good mental exercise to work out what worked :)
 
Mar 13, 2008
Scott Cowan Script's author

Hi cintra, just got off a 14h flight or I would've been able to help earlier. As far as I know lifehacker haven't updated with the 2.0.0.12 fix yet but Gina knows about it so you might want to use this one til you see and update available
 
Mar 12, 2008
cintra User

OK, now I have it. When using Better Greader's (0.2.1) Minimalistic skin w doesn't work.

However if I choose no skin, and use the Minimalstic script instead w works well.

Could be that Better Greader needs to update their skins..

Thanks anyway. Your skin helps make Google Reader a lot better!
 
Mar 12, 2008
cintra User

Back again.. have just come back to the iMac during which time it was Sleeping, and blow me but w is working solidly now..
 
Mar 12, 2008
cintra User

I'm afraid the w problem still exists here on 2.0.0.12 Leopard 10.5.2 - u works ok all the time. w has done on this version IIRC, but right now it simply blanks the mouse cursor and thats all :)
Any chance to allow choice of own letter?
 
Mar 7, 2008
Scott Cowan Script's author

the w key is fixed, the problem with firefox 2.0.0.12 is that they made some js changes like the 'keypress' event only handles the function keys but 'keydown' works and the characters returned are all uppercase now.
 
Mar 7, 2008
Scott Cowan Script's author

looks like this widescreen toggle is broken in 2.0.0.12 I'm fixing it now
 
Jan 24, 2008
Scott Cowan Script's author

I'm not a big fan of hiding the actions bar, but I could see it would be useful in hiding it for items other than the one with id = current-entry. I'll take a look at doing that. I'm having a little trouble getting the css to say display:inline when I have div class="entry-actions" under div id="current-entry" any ideas?

as for the border, I'm undecided as it does change the look quite a bit and you only gain in having more entries on the screen not by being able to read more of any given entry. I find mine feeds are longer posts so maybe thats why it doesn't bug me.

as for the red line in firefox 3 I'll give that a look.
 
Jan 24, 2008
bobielawlintine Scriptwright

Or alternatively for .entry-actions, only show it for currently active item, and possibly only when
w-fullscreen is not enabled.
 
Jan 23, 2008
bobielawlintine Scriptwright

Wonder if you could possibly add ".entry-actions" to autohide ? ( can't get it working consistently enough with .entry-actions:hover ) All the actions work when it's hidden, only there's not a whole lot of feedback when sharing an item or adding a tag. Possibly make
#tags-edit appear out of nowhere when pressing 't' even when parent classes/ids are hidden.

Also, autohiding .cb , .cbl, .cbr, .cr (most of the frames around an item in expanded view) for that little extra vertical space. Resulting look in the screenshot in http://userstyles.org/styles/4200 Also removes the problem of sometimes seeing the horizontal red line (seen eg. on earlier alpha builds of Firefox 3.0)
( removing .ct , .cl , .ctr, .ctl wrecks havoc with the layout)

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AnonCrow
 
Jan 22, 2008
Scott Cowan Script's author

Thanks syntax, they just changed that gbh tag from an id to a class attribute yesterday.

I updated the script with the changes to hide that line.
 
Jan 22, 2008
syntax User

Thanks for the great script!
Only thing which bothered me is this line: http://img299.imageshack.us/my.php?image=grmini...
So I put this at the beginning of script:
GM_addStyle(".gbh { display:none !important; }");
(Dirty but quick.)
 
Nov 29, 2007
Scott Cowan Script's author

thanks ydant, I think I'll leave those two in this copy unless I hear different. I find relying on keyboard shortcuts to just around between tags and subscriptions means I don't really open up the sidebar anyways. I could see how it'd give you more space though.
 
Nov 28, 2007
ydant User

Great script. I find it particularly useful on my N810 - the screen is so limited that removing as much cruft as possible helps a LOT. I made one small modification - I added these IDs: "selectors-box","add-box" to get rid of the two boxes on the left side above the subscription list.

Thank you for sharing your script.
 
Nov 13, 2007
Scott Cowan Script's author

I created a video on my blog of this working incase you want to check it out http://www.sleepoverrated.com/2007/11/13/Google...
 
Nov 7, 2007
Scott Cowan Script's author

Does anyone want any new features, I've got a couple I'll try and add shortly

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