Hello Holger, On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:06:16 +0100 Holger Bauer wrote: > First, please don't use hard coded background colors when you use the > foreground color from the current gtk theme at the same time. Right > now you assume people always have a theme with dark text color, which > is just not true. My theme uses a bright text color and that makes the > podcasts list unreadable, which uses yellow/white as background. Also > think about people using gnomes highcontrast inverse theme (white text > color). Sure, I've added it to the TODO list. Would a color chooser in the preferences dialog suit your needs? I don't think we can automatically calculate "good" colors from the gtk theme colors. > My second suggestion is to include a systray icon similar to the ones > many music players have. It would be great if I could hide/show the > gpodder window by clicking on it. Getting current download status on > mouseover would be amazing. Being notified when a download finished > either by status icon or notification popup would be the ne plus > ultra. :) Also added to the TODO list. Things like the tray icon are probably easy to implement but due to lack of time, I currently can't do it. If anyone wants to have a look at it, please by all means do. You probably need the PyGTK documentation and some minor initialization code in gpodder.py. I imagine the status text simply being a tooltip that is updated from the download status manager (or simply the window title). Don't know if PyGTK already supports the new "notification balloons" seen with current gnome-power-manager et al. Hmm.. weekend maybe ;) Enjoy. Thomas