news

[Ken Case]

> Now, when you say 'Preferences' would that the 'proxy' preferences?
> I'm not seeing exactly where I should put it.

Woops!  We used to have some UI for it, but I suppose we removed it  
when we didn't have any internal news support at all--and apparently  
forgot to add it back when we added news support again.

> My news host is simply 'news' (assuming my domain from
> /etc/resolv.conf gets stuck on).... would this work in b5?

We used to default to this, but in beta 3 (or so) failed newshost  
lookups crashed OmniWeb on launch, and not everyone had a "news", so as  
a temporary workaround I changed it to "news.omnigroup.com"--and,  
unfortunately, didn't ever change it back.

You can set your newshost with the command:

	defaults write OmniWeb OWNNTPServerHost newshost

And for those who don't know, here's a tip:  all Omni application  
preferences are registered with their default values in the  
human-readable .plist files inside the app wrapper, components  
(bundles), and frameworks.  For example, the default value for  
OWNNTPServerHost is defined in  
OmniWeb.app/Resources/Preferences.omniweb/Resources/Info-nextstep.plist.

				Ken