[Pan-users] Cosmetic ideas - header pane

[Wolf J . Flywheel]

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Hi...

        Many of you may be familiar with newsgroups, such as 
alt.binaries.multimedia.anime, which feature exceedingly long message 
subjects.  I find myself needing to flip the horizontal scrollbar a 
lot, when reading a line to see which part it is, to further check 
whether it's complete.  (I do a lot of scanning with text posts turned 
on, and this somehow makes incomplete binaries show up as well, though 
I keep them turned off.)  Since the horizontal scrollbar does not work 
in my current version of Pan, I got to thinking that it would be nice 
if I could tell at a glance about the status of binary attachments -- 
even if I have scrolled over to the right a long way.
        One way would be to have the very first column, which contains the 
status icon for each message, *not* scroll with the rest of the 
columns, but remain visible at all times.  (If you've used spreadsheet 
software, you've probably split a sheet in this manner, to keep 
left-hand columns visible while looking at the rightmost columns.)  
Even fancier would be allowing a "split" view, exactly the way 
spreadsheets do it, in case somebody wanted to see the Date column and 
status icons at the same time.  ;)
        Another way would be to have headers for incomplete binaries show up 
in a different color.  Of course, people who don't like this could set 
the color to be the same as something else.

        I'm going to file this as a suggestion soon, if it hasn't been 
already... thoughts?

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