On 9/12/07, Alistair Sutton <alistair.sutton at gmail.com> wrote: > On 12/09/2007, Thomas Perl <thp at perli.net> wrote: > > Hello, gPodder users and developers! > > > > We've had the new channel navigator since mid-July (that is, since > > 0.9.4). Since then, I've been thinking about removing the old ComboBox > > that lists the available channels, as this functionality is duplicated > > with the new channel navigator. Of course, it could be that somebody > > uses the combo box and has the channel navigator hidden. That's why I'm > > asking you to give some input and your opinion about this matter. > > > > Here's how it'd look like when removing the combobox: > > > > > http://spock.thpinfo.com/~thp/images/gpodder-no-comboavailable.png > > > > It would bring some screen real estate (display ~ 2 more episodes in the > > available episodes list) and simplify the code a bit by removing the > > specific data fields only needed for the combobox. > > > > Do you think the combobox should be removed in favor of the channel > > navigator or can you tell me a good reason why the combobox should stay? > > > Looks fantastic. > > My only concern would be the resetting of the navigator after a download > has begun. > > Currently, at least for me, if an episode is selected from a channel at the > end of the list, then once the download starts the navigator resets itself > back to the top of the list. > > For people with small lists or very large screens this isn't a problem but > for me (who has, obsessively, 58 channels in the list) it can be annoying > that I have to keep scrolling through the navigator every time I download an > episode. > > Al > > -- > WWW: http://ajs.no-dns-yet.org.uk > GPG/PGP: http://ajs.no-dns-yet.org.uk/pubkey.gpg > _______________________________________________ > gpodder-devel mailing list > gpodder-devel at lists.berlios.de > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/gpodder-devel > > Go for it, the channel navigator is much nicer and more useful than the combo box, just make sure that you can't actually hide the channel navigator anymore. nick