Thanks for your feedback. I'll have a look into the toolbar issue. It _should_ do what you said (always enable toolbar regardless of setting), but it looks like this does not yet work correctly.

For all your other suggestions that you have reported/suggested, please file a bug report for each of them at http://bugs.gpodder.org/, so we can track them easily.

I do not yet have an idea how to set up the interface so that finger scrolling is possible AND multiple selections are possible. But, please consider this:

Download: It does not really matter if you add files separately to playlists and then "download" that playlist

Delete: You can use the menu item "Delete old episodes" to get a "playlist" of downloaded files that can be deleted - this way, you don't need to delete files one by one, and it even works for _all_ your podcasts at once.

Playback: Adding multiple episodes to a playlist ("enqueue") should not be handled directly in gPodder, but it will be handled in Panucci soon, and then you get the desired playlist feature (as far as i understand) "for free" due to Panucci's feature set.

Locking: Due to Anders Kvist's patch that allows locking of whole podcasts (in addition to single episodes), you can lock a podcast and automatically lock all the episodes, even not yet downloaded ones

That's about all the operations that I can think of that you can carry out with multiple episodes. So, I think in the long run, we will not need multiple selections or playlists _inside_ gPodder. I fear that this will make the currently very slick interface too complicated.