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 gPodder 0.6 README
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 Copyright (c) 2005-2006 Thomas Perl <thp@perli.net>
 Version 0.6 released on 29.03.2006 under the GNU GPL




 ============================
 1) What's new in version 0.6
 ============================

 Please see the gPodder homepage for most recent information.
 
 Highlights of this release include:
  * Code structure cleanups (even more object-oriented)
  * No more errors with HTML inside <description> tags (Thanks Leo Gomez)
  * Brand-new channel information/editor dialog
  * Brand-new episode information dialog
  * Tooltips for all your mouse hovering needs
  * Race condition bug that made downloaded podcasts to disappear fixed!
  * Possibility to delete already-downloaded podcasts
  * Menu items are not even more intelligent and disable themselves when 
    not needed
  * Now handling bad URLs in "Add channel" dialog gracefully
  * Code cleanups in gPodder's main window code
  * New properties dialog - more options!
  * Possibility to create a symlink to the downloaddir on the Desktop
  * Added confirmation dialogs to "deleting" functions
  * More stable download handling
  * More messages informing the user what's going on when something is 
    going wrong..
  * New features and new bugs - included!

 ===============
 2) Dependencies
 ===============

 Debian/Ubuntu users can install the dependencies with:
 
   apt-get install python python-glade2 python-gtk2 wget python-xml

 Other users: Please install the above packages somehow ;)
 If you want to install gPodder from source, you have to 
 get the following packages:
 
   apt-get install help2man python-dev intltool gettext
 
 =====================
 3) How to run/install
 =====================

 Extract the tar archive somewhere into your home directory and cd into 
 the directory where you extracted it, for example:

   tar xzvf gpodder-0.6.tar.gz
   cd gpodder-0.6/
 
 After that you can start gPodder 0.5 by starting it with the following 
 command:

   make test
 
 If this works out, close gPodder again and install it system-wide:

   sudo make install

 This will install gPodder in standard locations. After the installation 
 routine (hopefully) finished successfully, you might run gPodder from 
 any path on your machine by simply typing:

   gpodder

 If you have any problems, please visit the gPodder website or mail the 
 gPodder mailing list (see below for more information).

 =============
 4) How to use
 =============

 gPodder was designed with usability in mind. Saying that gPodder is 
 self-explaining saves me from writing long documentation. Watch out 
 for the gPodder website. If you need more information, please mail 
 our gPodder mailing list :)

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 5) Known bugs
 =============

 No known bug so far. Please mail the mailing list or the author directly 
 to report bugs - we'll try to fix them in the next release :) Thanks!

 =========================================
 6) Feature requests, bug reports, patches
 =========================================

 Feel free to mail me about feature requests, bug reports, patches or nearly
 anything that comes to your mind relating gPodder:

   Author's eMail:         thp@perli.net
   gPodder homepage:       http://perli.net/projekte/gpodder/
   gPodder mailing list:   gpodder-devel@berlios.de


           And last but not least... have fun with gPodder :)

                                     -- Thomas Perl, March 29th 2006