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Project direction

The goal and general direction is to build a micro-blogging tool optimised for reading. This includes:

• coping with large amounts of updates (perhaps including a person/tag mute option, for dealing with the occasional flamewar :))
• being able to catch up only partially when time is short, without being confused when coming back to it
• highlight messages to deal with later (reply, URL to check out, ...)
• ...and so on

Current status

The project is usable for a certain definition of usable -- it's read-only, you can mark specific messages as read and highlight others to deal with later. You can also set which user to follow -- probably yourself.

This could be nice, but it's terribly slow. I need to research how to deal with that kind of issues on a phone -- grabbing XML files from remote urls and parsing them without having the UI completely hang for a long time. Resources recommendations or advice from Gtk/PyGtk/Maemo long-timers would be very much, and very humbly appreciated :)