Re: [Pan-users] Feature requests

[Hans Verkuil]

On Wednesday 20 March 2002 14:59, you wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 10:24:25PM +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> > First I want to say that Pan is probably the best news reader that I've
> > used, and I've tried a few. But even the best can be made better and
> > there are two features that I miss:
> >
> > The first feature request concerns the directory for saving attachments.
> > By default they go to News/Pan, or to the directory you supply yourself.
> > I'd really like to see a checkbox to set the default to News/<groupname>.
> > I'm pretty sure I've come across a similar feature in another newsreader
> > and I think it makes a lot of sense. I don't want to manually supply
> > every group with its own save directory.
>
> I like this idea, and have slated it for 0.12.0:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75591

If you want to make this really luxurious you could let the user choose 
whether to set the default to News/<group.name> or News/<group>/<name>
(i.e. replacing the dots in a groupname by slashes). I remember that the 
newsreader (whose name I cannot remember :-) did have this feature. 

                Hans