[gpodder-devel] Changes to the tray icon

From: priestoftime at googlemail.com (Shane Donohoe)
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:38:52 +0000
On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 12:03 +0100, Thomas Perl wrote:

This sounds pretty perfect. My main concern is having gpodder do things
by itself when minimized and I think you realise that. Notifications are
still good, but only if they don't make you do anything, but just notify
you.

Thanks Thomas.

> Hello, Jerome, Shane and Paul!
> 
> On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 21:55 +0100, J?r?me 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] Changes to the tray icon

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