I have a suggestion for a change in how gPodder for Fremantle (N900) behaves when you click on an episode. Please read the explanation below then chose an option in the poll above.

Currently when you click on an episode, a dialogue pops up from the bottom of the screen that looks like the following:

The above is when the episode has already been downloaded. See variations when an episode has not yet been downloaded or is currently downloading. You'll notice a "Shownotes" button which brings up the text associated with the episode.

My proposal is that instead of a dialogue popping up from the bottom, a "stacked window" (i.e. one that and has a back arrow in top-right) slides in which contains the shownotes immediately, and has the remaining buttons at the bottom, like the following mockup:

Also see mockups for when an episode has not yet been downloaded or is currently downloading.

This has the advantage that the shownotes are immediately available without having to do a separate click.

In case it isn't clear, my proposal is that the buttons at the bottom of the episode window will be in a toolbar anchored to the bottom of the screen and won't scroll with the shownotes, so they should be just as easy to reach for the user as the current dialogue implementation.

For the sake of honesty, one downside I can think of with the stacked window proposal is that it is a little harder to go back to the list of episodes, as the user will have to click on the top-right arrow rather than anywhere in the blurred area above the dialogue in the current implementation, but I don't think that is too much of a hardship. Also, translations into other languages may use longer words than in English, so may not easily fit onto one line, in which case maybe the font could be smaller or the toolbar moved back to two lines.

I have made this suggestion to thp using bugs.maemo.org (see the feature request at https://bugs.maemo.org/11501), and he suggested setting up this poll to see what the rest of the user population prefers. It is worth reading that bug report for more information.

If you use gPodder, please vote in this poll for your preferred behaviour when clicking on an episode. If you like the stacked window idea, you could also vote for it on https://bugs.maemo.org/11501.

Feel free to comment in this thread to say why you prefer one behaviour over the other, or if you have any other suggestions for what should happen when you click on an episode in the list.