Can you create a survey on talk.maemo.org for this one? I'm wondering if more
users would find the stackable window approach more appealing or the dialog
approach (the current one). We had the stackable window approach in an earlier
version (where the actions where hidden in the app menu, though), and it was
suggested that a dialog with actions is a better solution in this case.

If you really want this, please create a thread with a poll on talk.maemo.org
and link it from here and link this bug from there so we can see the results
from users. Otherwise I'm going to close this as WONTFIX in a few weeks.

Thanks. I'll look into creating a poll, possibly with a mockup screenshot to
explain what I mean.

It may be that the previous stacked window implementation was disliked because
the actions were a little hidden in the menu, meaning more clicks and delays
for the user. My idea is to have the action buttons as part of the stacked
window, but importantly in a non-scrollable region, probably at the bottom. The
shownotes would be in a scrollable region above the buttons, pretty much where
the blurred out part of the screen is in the current dialogue box
implementation.

As long as the stacked window can be made to scroll onscreen just as quickly as
the current dialogue box appears, it should be just as quick for the user to
reach the desired action. The only downside I can think of is that the
back/cancel action is harder, as the user would have to click in the top-right
rather than anywhere above the dialogue.

I attach some screenshots. There are screenshots for both the current dialogue
implementation (for reference) and my proposed stacked window implementation
for what I believe are the three valid states for an episode: not downloaded,
downloading, and downloaded.

In case it isn't clear, the buttons at the bottom won't scroll with the
shownotes - i.e. they act like a toolbar anchored to the bottom of the screen.
This means that they are always visible and always in the same position, which
is useful for the user's muscle memory. I think it is very important that a
user can quickly click on an ep then click, e.g., Play, without having to hunt
around, just as they can on the current dialogue implementation.

I haven't shown it on these screenshots, but I also propose that the "Visit
website" action that some episodes have could be reached by making the title of
the episode a blue underlined clickable link. Also, the filesize could be shown
in the shownotes pane rather than on the Download button in the "not
downloaded" view for reasons of space. By the way, the filesize could stay in
the shownotes for all three states, as is useful information when it has
finished downloading too.

For portrait, the toolbar would probably have to move to two rows.

Getting a little off-topic of this bug report, but another advantage of a
stacked window is that you could add a feature to allow left/right swipe
gestures within the shownotes area to go to the previous/next episode in the
list, which you can't do with the dialogue implementation. This would allow
users to nicely look through the shownotes of all their eps when they are
trying to find a particular ep.

Let me know if these screenshots convince you or if I still need to poll other
users.

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not downloaded - current

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not downloaded - proposed

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downloading - current

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downloading - proposed

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downloaded - current

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downloaded - proposed

(In reply to comment #3)
> Let me know if these screenshots convince you or if I still need to poll other
> users.

The screenshots are very helpful, but please still create a poll (you should
add the screenshots to the poll thread as well).

Also think about translations. While in English, "Download" and "Play" might
fit the screen, in other languages it might not.

Poll is up at http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=66000