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Originally Posted by sixwheeledbeast View Post
Exactly, well I was thinking about an "unread" list menu item.
To do that, I'll need to start storing more metadata for the feeds; right now, Linguine has no clue what has been read and unread.

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...
Yikes! Yeah, I gotta admit that recreating something like Liferea is a bit beyond the aspirations I had for this app. Still, no reason not to see what good ideas I can steal from them without too much effort... And yeah, the current categories are pretty limiting. There is no real limit on how you should be able to categorize newsfeeds, I just need to buckle down and get the UI for it implemented.

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.
Please tell me which sites are not working, I'll spruce up my (bare-bones) parser to get them up and running. (Linguine can handle a decent variety of RSS feeds now, but it still needs a lot of work, and I haven't even started on an Atom parser yet...)

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
I'll get an image displayer set up asap.
 

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