Hello, Jerome, Shane and Paul! On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 21:55 +0100, Jérôme Chabod wrote: > I understand your point of view and I must honestly say I also won't > need all this extra "buttons". I also agree to the fact that "new > episode are available" should be notified only once.
Ok, so I think we can add to the list of needed changes: * Only show "New episodes are available" once for a set of episodes * Remove all the buttons on the notification bubbles > However, a feature I really, really need is the ability to > automaticaly download episodes as soon as they are discovered (I > explain it a few paragraph later). As Paul and Shane also suggested that they would find this feature useful, I think we should add the option, but maybe seperate to the current option (rename the current to "[...] after manual feed updates" and add a new "download new episodes in the background when gPodder is minimized"). Of course, this means that we have to make sure that automatic downloads never bring the gPodder window in the foreground, but always run automatically (errors can still be reported via a notification bubble). On the other hand, who would manually update the feed cache and then not be asked about new episodes? So maybe we should remove the option to ask for downloading after feed updates and simply make it the default. Then we get: * Remove the current automatic download option (default behaviour) * Add option to download new episodes in the background (minimized) * Make sure automatic downloads never show the gPodder window > To let you understand my motivation, let me explain "my ideal" gPodder > as it tends to become (if you have to few time, you can skip it ;)): Thanks for sharing your gPodder workflow, it's interesting to read how other people use gPodder. We should probably make a contest in some weeks for people to send in their usage patterns of gPodder - maybe we can get some hints on what could be improved and maybe we can also use this information for writing a "How to best use gPodder for [...]" guide. I'll note that, maybe we can do this when we have the time. Please have a look at the "*" items that I have tried to sum up in this mail and see if this is what you think is a good thing to do. We should probably have some more discussion before we start implementing the planned changes. Thanks for your time and attention to detail. I think with the results of this discussion and a good implementation, we can make your tray icon feature really shine and have a great release in February with the tray icon included. Thomas _______________________________________________ gpodder-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/gpodder-devel
