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Fremantle Stars/gPodder

Latest revision as of 16:32, 30 May 2017

This article is out-of-date, and needs to be updated. Please see the talk page for discussion.

The current version is 0.16.1-10frmntl0 (2009-08-26) in Fremantle Extras-Devel.

Screenshots as of 2009-06-16 can be found here and here.

[edit] Fixed problems/ChangeLog

• 0.16.1-10frmntl0: Add support for direct subscriptions from the browser using feedhandler
• 0.16.1-9fremantleui: Shorten application name to "gPodder" in application list to avoid it being cropped to "gPodder Podcas" ([1])
• 0.16.1-8fremantleui: Downloads are now stored in $HOME ([])
• 0.16.1-7fremantleui: The AppMenu is now shown in beta2 and (hopefully) on devices
• 0.16.1-6fremantleui: Welcome window now works again
• 0.16.1-5fremantleui: Several UI bugs/annoyances (Maemo bugs 4686, 4687, 4688 and 4689)
• 0.16.1-4fremantleui: Don't use "I" while writing messages from software (bug 4684)
• 0.16.1-3fremantleui: Installation fails on postinst[2]

[edit] Already Working (List of things to test)

• Welcome screen at first start / when subscription list empty
• Find new podcasts - with podcast directory + YouTube search
• Login to my.gpodder.org and download subscription list
• App menu in main window
  • Check for new episodes (update feeds; show progress in titlebar; offer new episodes)
  • Downloads (opens the download status list; shows status as gray text)
  • Add new podcast (subscribe to a podcast by entering/pasting the feed URL)
  • Unsubscribe (remove the subscription and downloads of the selected podcast)
  • Preferences (Set up audio and media player)
  • About gPodder (About dialog.. nothing more)
  • Podcast directory (OPML from web; suggested podcasts; top podcasts; YouTube subscriptions)
• Main window UI
  • Left pane lists podcasts, right pane lists episodes in selected podcast
  • Clicking on an episode opens its shownotes in a new stackable window
• Episode shownotes UI
  • Has image of podcast, title of episode + podcast, shownotes
  • Appmenu has: Play/Stream; Download/Cancel/Delete; Pause/Resume; Do not download/Mark as new; Open website (does this work with the browser??)
• Download status UI
  • List of current downloads (queued, downloading, finished, paused, cancelled, failed)
  • Clicking on an item opens the shownotes window
  • Appmenu has: Pause all; Resume all; Cancel all; Clean up list (removes all with status: cancelled, finished, failed)

Advanced features:

• Close gPodder while downloads are running; on next startup, it asks you to resume the downloads

[edit] Known problems

• Main window uses GtkPaned [3]
• Podcast directory dialog uses GtkNotebook [4] -- bug 4690 has a solution; still needs implementation

[edit] Planned/Ideas

• Integration with MAFW (downloaded episodes as MafwSource/MafwPlaylist?) -- depends on bug 4675
• Automatic updating in the background (depending on cellular/wlan connection?)
• Tablet-related content (Tablet School video podcast?) -- needs content publishers to provide their content as video podcast

[edit] Need Help

• Playback + Streaming (How to interface with the Media Player in Maemo 5?)
• Better podcast directory - please suggest feeds[5]
• HTML shownotes - is there a "good" HTML widget for PyMaemo?
• UI feedback