I have subscribed to a dozen or so radio/audio podcasts, so I set RB to check and download new podcasts automatically, every hour.
The problem is that (probably partly due to my crappy ISP), RB regularly has some sort of problem with some podcast or another, and that everytime, it pops up an error window to tell me about it. Thing is, in practice I get these windows very often, sometimes if I leave the computer unattended or a few hours or half a day, there are a dozen windows I must close one by one, when I come back !
Basically, all these error windows do more harm than good :
1) they interrupt my work randomly
2) I can't do anything about the problem anyway, and can only click the "ok" button to make it go away
3) the problem is always temporary, and if I update the feeds manually, the problem has already cured itself.
This is the way I would expect RB to behave:
- When set for automatic downloads : never require user input, no pop up windows. If an error occurs, just try again 5 minutes later, most (all, so far) of the time it will suffice. The error should only be notified by an "error" icon next to the podcast (as is already the case), and cleared once the problem is gone.
Additionnaly, if RB deems it worthwhile to inform the user of an error, it can just use the notification area, using a bubble. This way the user can see the information, but is not too disturbed by it.
- Pop up messages should only be used when the user operates RB manually.
Thank you for your bug. You probably want to open a bug on rhythmbox and not eog, I'm reassigning it. That's known upstream: http://