[gpodder-devel] Non-modal feed cache updates (testers needed)

  • From: me at nikosapi.org (Nick Nobody)
  • Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:13:25 -0400

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Thomas Perl <thp at perli.net> wrote:
> Hello!
>
>  I'm currently working on one of the "big" changes for 0.11.2, which
>  should be out really soon now (we still have one week to finish things
>  up). I've added a patch (against SVN trunk) and a screenshot to show
>  what the results are to this bug report:
>
>  http://bugs.gpodder.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16
>
>  Please try out this patch, give some feedback and tell me if this is
>  better for you than the modal feed cache update dialog. I think the
>  place for the progress bar and the cancel button is in a good place now,
>  and we also see the progress when opening the main window after starting
>  the feed update from the tray icon's popup menu.
>
>  Also, cancelling the feed cache update now really works, in the code
>  with the dialog box, we didn't really cancel the downloads, but simply
>  hide the dialog (that was awful!). My fault ;)
>
>  Thanks,
>  Thomas
>
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Seems to work well, the only issue is that sometimes when the channel
title is too long you can't see the progress ratio.

Great work Thomas!

nick


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