The RSS reader is capable of caching feeds. Inspired by reading the “Mythical Man Month” this winter I have created a MokoCache to control the storage size of the feeds. Well the API is present but there is enforcement on the size yet but it would be easy to add. Caching of images and displaying of HTML is still not implemented.
I’m busy hacking on WebKit/Gdk, keeping it compiling, making it work and slowly improving it. I have finally mailed Sean and asked him to contact the designers to give answers to some of the remaining questions.

• What do we want to configure and how should the configuration dialog look like?
• Should one remember which posts have been read, should one be able to see the remaining unread ones?
• Should one store posts automatically, should one only store important posts?
• How should one forward a feed entry?

So hopefully while Sean and his designers find these things out and specify them I will be able to clean up the code a bit. This was my first piece of Gtk+ from scratch and I did lousy on some parts. Luckily I have a list of things I did wrong and can concentrate on them.

I hope to hook up WebKit to it soon and then we have best-in-class rendering of these feeds. The only obstacle for a real release is slimming WebKit a bit. But more on this on another topic.