For the longest time, I avoided panucci because it just didn't work at all for me and I didn't see this solution. Now that I've done this and it's working, it's clearly a MUCH.. MUCH MUCH.. MUUUUUCH better player for podcasts than anything else I've seen. With a little more tweaking, this could easily be as useful, attractive and intuitive as my old favorite on the Palm, Pocket Tunes (which I'd ended up actually buying because it was so perfect for my podcast-listening back when I used to use my Palm T5 all the time).

Things I like (please keep!):
* The big honking podcast JPEG (icon/graphic/etc) on the left.
* The way it intelligently centers text for podcasts that have no embedded graphic, left-justifies against the graphic for those that do. That's just intuitively attractive.
* auto-bookmarking on exit

Things I don't like:
* No way to delete a podcast from the interface. (Maybe an option in a drop down is in order). I will sometimes play audiobooks or podcasts from the SD card and then want to remove them to make more room (or so that I don't try to play them again).
* Playlist/queue... but I read a rumor that that's an upcoming feature, eh?
* 'touch /etc/osso_software_version'... this doesn't seem, to me, to be the proper way to check for maemo. It seems like this file doesn't normally get created by anything--so I'm not sure why there's a reliance on it. Maybe it might be better to check for the presence of the word 'maemo' or 'OS2008' in /etc/issue instead? (Mind you, checking the login banner like this isn't the PROPER way, but it seems to work for maemo.. ideally, Nokia SHOULD have properly populated the /etc/lsb-base directory with all the right information for their distribution to be supported more clearly.

Might be nice:
* Skinnable interface (I'd imagine you would want the app to query the screen size, fullscreen only or window only, and then use a bunch of XML to track graphics, style, metadata and positions for things like buttons, mp3/ogg graphic, slider, widgets, clock (played/countdown), maybe a CLOCK clock (the current time, if it ends up fullscreen), battery level, button for easily swtiching to gpodder even while fullscreened, etc.
* Being able to fullscreen. Not too big a deal, but there are times when I prefer it. I always hate it when applications FORCE you not to be able to use them the way YOU, the user, want to.

Thanks again for shooting out another quality production from THP & Co and for hanging around and reading all this stuff we write!