Just to add my opinion to the pot, I agree that having gPodder automatically download podcasts when minimised is a valuable feature that I would like to see (and would use!)
Paul On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 23:12 +0000, Shane Donohoe wrote: > OK, firstly I apologise for not changing the topic from the default. I > only noticed afterwards and maybe changing it now is actually a bad > idea. > > Anyway, I agree with you about not having too many buttons on the > notification bar, but I do think that the downloading should still be > automatic when gpodder is minimized to the tray. It is nice to open it > again later and have all your episodes there. Maybe adding a download > automatically option is a good idea. > > On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 00:07 +0100, Thomas Perl wrote: > > Hello! > > > > On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 16:10 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I agree completly with you. > > > I propose to modify the tray icon this way: > > > > > > When new episodes are found: > > > > > > * the option "auto-dowload new episodes" is ON: > > > - notify "x new episodes where found. Download will start > > > immediatly..." > > > - notification as 2 buttons "cancel" and "show" > > > - after 5 s, if cancel wasn't pressed, download starts > > > automaticaly > > > > > > * the option "auto-dowload new episodes" is OFF: > > > - notify "x new episodes where found" > > > - notification as 3 buttons "download all news", "select episodes" > > > and "show" > > > > > > What do you and other people thing about that? > > > > I think all these special cases make configuring and using gPodder > > harder than it should be. I agree with you on the problems with gPodder > > popping up randomly. > > > > The purpose of "auto-download new episodes" is that a user that wants to > > download new episodes doesn't have to click on "download new episodes" > > after clicking "refresh feeds", so the menu item would better be > > described as "auto-download new episodes after a manual feed update", > > which would already tell us the way to go. In my opinion, when gPodder > > is minimized to the tray icon, it should only tell the user that new > > episodes are available or that downloads have been finished. Although > > the buttons in the notification bubble are nice, I think they are a bad > > idea for interacting the way we use it currently. The buttons in the > > notification area are more useful for things like "don't show me this > > again" or in case of an error "show the logfile" or such things. > > > > Interaction with gPodder should only happen when it is not minimized. If > > you are letting yourself be distracted by the notification bubble (and > > try to read and click on it), you might as well only get a notification > > and if you want to act upon it, open gPodder and carry out the actions > > you want to do. > > > > The timeout in the notification bubbles with action buttons also gives a > > "hurry, hurry - you have to do something now!" kind of feeling - same > > with instant messengers - that surely interrupt the normal workflow. > > > > In my opinion, we should throw out the action buttons completely and > > make gPodder behave nice and non-intrusive when minimized. This means: > > only notification bubbles for the following scenarios: > > > > * New episodes are available > > * Downloads have been finished > > (did I forget something here?) > > > > Also, the "new episodes are available" notification should only be shown > > once, not every time the feed cache gets updated. > > > > When gPodder is minimized, updating the feed cache (automatically or > > manually) should never trigger an automatic download. The option > > mentioned above should only come into effect when the feed update was > > initiated manually and gPodder was not minimized. > > > > What do you think? Anybody willing to implement it this way? I still > > want to do the new sync code, so any help with fixing the tray icon > > problems is really appreciated! > > > > Thomas > > _______________________________________________ > gpodder-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/gpodder-devel _______________________________________________ gpodder-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/gpodder-devel
