[Pan-users] nzb import bug and a few thoughts about new pan

[boo]

hi,
i found a rather annoying bug in the new pan, just recently updated to
0.93 and it is still there, so i thought i'd report it:
when you import an nzb-file and it contains lets say 2 files, the
first one with 10 segments and the second with 1 segment, then the
resulting tasks.nzb will contain 2 files as it should, but _both_ with
10 segments. the first one is okay, but the 2nd has 10 segments also
(9 attached from the previous file) thus resulting in a broken
download.

i really think the nzb-feature is a great addition to pan, especially
when using it with the cmdline, but imho it's still lacking some
functionality. because typically you get those files off the web and
you want to either be able to double click them or directly 'launch'
them from within your browser. in both cases the --output option is
pretty useless, so it would be nice to have an option like
--ask-for-dir that pops up a filechooser dialog to choose the
destination dir. Also i think it would be nice to be able to queue
downloads into existing, running pan instances.

some other minor things i noticed:
it's really nice that the header pane now updates directly while
downloading the headers, but you cant read an article while the
headers are updating, because it doesnt get downloaded (alltough it's
at the top of the queue) until the updating is done.
when a task is stopped it would be nice to be able to see that it is
stopped (like make the entry grey/italic).
when the download-manager is open and you minimize the main window, you
cant maximize it again unless you close the download-manager.
when a download-manager-window is open and you click on the task
button in the main window again it opens another download-manager.

thanks for your attention :)
--ulrich