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You are absolutely right, in the car, I definitely enjoy the bigness of panucci, mediaplayer, and canola. If you had an applet, I think it would be the same point as all applets, just that on the desktop/home screen, you have lots of information together that is easily viewed in a glance. Honestly, I think that's just something I like on my laptop/desktop, so it seemed interesting for the N8*0. Having a whole slew of applets on the desktop (rss, email, weather, to-do list, etc) while listening to things seems like it would be handy, but I guess it isn't that hard to just flip between things.

Good luck again getting the new gpodder up and going.

As you might have guessed, a new gPodder release is out - right after the Danish Weekend.

gPodder 0.16.0 comes with a completely new download manager, lots of UI improvements for both OS2008 (Chinook/Diablo) and Fremantle and improved performance.

The screen space organization has also been optimized, so there are no more tabs, and more space available to display podcasts and episodes. Click the "Downloads" toggle button in the toolbar to switch to/from the downloads view. I'd like to hear some opinions and feedback if this improves your user experience or makes things worse. All UI elements should be finger-friendly now. If you spot something that's not, report it, so we have a chance of fixing it

There are screenshots of gPodder 0.16.0 running on Diablo and Fremantle (SDK).

The new version (0.16.0-1) should automatically be picked up by Application Manager today or tomorrow from Maemo Extras (refresh manually if you want to upgrade now).

Hmm I updated, but there seems to be a problem. It won't launch through task manager (the GUI icon way) but it will launch through the terminal with the gpodder command.

If a user wanted to revert to 0.15, is there still a .deb available? I can find outdated debs for, for example, Maemo Mapper in the garage (https://garage.maemo.org/frs/?group_id=29), but I haven't found old gPodder debs in the garage, at gPodder.org, or anywhere.

(I haven't installed .16 yet. I'm just being cautious. Maemo Mapper I did choose to take backwards.)

(... and I'm so thoroughly happy with your great program in its current incarnation ... )

I am having the same problem on my N810. If I start it with 'gpodder' at the command line it comes up, but not with the maemo specific UI. If I try to run it with 'gpodder --maemo' I get an error:
~ $ gpodder --maemo
Creating new from file gPodder
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gpodder/uibase.py:59: GtkWarning: Unknown property: GtkVSeparator.orientation

self.builder.add_from_file(os.path.join(ui_folder, ui_file))
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/gpodder", line 192, in <module>
gui.main()
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gpodder/gui.py", line 5118, in main
gp = gPodder(bus_name)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gpodder/gui.py", line 369, in __init__
BuilderWidget.__init__(self)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gpodder/gui.py", line 151, in __init__
uibase.GtkBuilderWidget.__init__(self, gpodder.ui_folder, gpodder.textdomain, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gpodder/uibase.py", line 64, in __init__
self.new()
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gpodder/gui.py", line 484, in new
self.item_upgrade_from_videocenter.show()
AttributeError: 'gtk.Action' object has no attribute 'show'
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Doesn't work for me either. Will there be fix?

Thanks for your feedback! I've fixed this bug (only happens when you have Nokia Video Center installed - more precisely, when ~/videocenter exists).

I have uploaded the package 0.16.0-2 to the Extras Autobuilder, and will promote the fix as soon as the package has been built.

A quick fix in the meantime: Rename "videocenter" in your $HOME. You can do this in xterm using a command like this:

Starting gPodder should work then, even with the 0.16.0-1 package version.

By the way: Older versions of gPodder should be available in the Maemo Extras-Devel repository: http://repository.maemo.org/extras-d...ree/g/gpodder/ I do not publish .debs anywhere else than the Maemo Extras repository, where they are available to the widest range of people and where the packages are always built from source with build dependency checks

The fix worked beautifully, I just downloaded 0.16.0-2 and it started up perfectly. Nice new download manager. Thanks for the awesome turnaround time.

I've got SERIOUS problems with the new MUCH lower time-out values that are preventing me from downloading a couple of podcasts.

CNET's podcasts often take a little while longer to kick in compared to most servers and they have been CONSISTENTLY timing out and failing to download with the latest gpodder (0.16.0-2). I have not been able to download them at ALL. (See http://podcasts.cnet.com) Sometimes the TED videos also fail to download for the same reason when they don't happen to respond immediately. gpodder is MUCH too quick to fail with a timeout error during downloads.

There has also been a nagging problem with the Air America feeds, too--but I've been working around it and I can wait on reporting that one until later. This timeout problem is much more urgent to me.

The timeout is currently set to 60 seconds. Do you mean that downloads do not start within 60 seconds or is the timeout happening before that?

The default socket timeout is set to 60 seconds in the "gpodder" module. According to the Python docs, the parameter is specified in seconds, and it worked for me so far.

I just tried subscribing to and downloading one of these podcasts ("The Apple Byte") and it works for me.