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Originally Posted by Copernicus View Post
Something like the attached shot? (I'll have to resize the icon down to something more manageable...)
Well I originally meant in the list menu. However, after resetting my feed to stock I noticed you do have icons but the sites I have are not working for Linguine for some reason.

Originally Posted by Copernicus View Post
I kind of get the feeling that having the icon there might be more useful if news from multiple sources were mixed together into one list. (Then again, there's no reason why I couldn't just mix news from multiple sources into one list...)
Exactly, well I was thinking about an "unread" list menu item.

Also you can't really tell the source of the feed from the list anyway (without icons), obviously the contents would give you a clue.
I would think in a list you want to know were the feed is from, OTOH if all feeds are mashed together you would be happy with an icon.
Maybe looking at other feed readers would better make sense of what I mean re grouping.
Lifera is a good example
http://lzone.de/liferea/screenshots.htm

I am imagining "All", "Unread", "Important" followed by topic groups because really does it matter if it's a podcast, text or images? Wouldn't it be more useful to have "Sport", "World News", "Computing" for example.
Or maybe I am trying to make Linguine into something it's not?...Sorry went off on a tangent there...
Originally Posted by Copernicus View Post
BTW, I'm amazed you were able to negotiate the entirely undocumented XML file mechanism in order to squeeze your own newsfeed in. I will try to improve the system (and get actual user-defined categories working) asap!
Well I have used HTML, XML and RSS before for websites I have setup so I am just guessing the tags really.
Some of my feeds are throwing errors but the MotoGP one worked.

BTW this is a good comic strip feed to add to your list. Unfortunately you don't have a image feed type to display it
http://xkcd.com/atom.xml
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