[Pan-users] Re: a very minor feature request (I hope)

[Duncan]

"Timothy J. Hamilton" <address@hidden>
posted address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Sun,
05 Nov 2006 15:56:32 -0600:

> I mostly use Pan for downloading binaries and multipart binaries. It would be 
> really, really nice if the task manager would queue the headers for 
> downloading in the same order that they appear in the header window.
> 
> What if I queue for downloading several different files posted as separate 
> multipart binaries, the headers for the different files are all mixed 
> together. I often download multiple episodes of one tv show, so the order of 
> the files in the Task Manager appears to be randomly shuffled. Either I 
> manually & tediously sort the tasks queued in the Task Manager or I wait 
> until almost the end of the downloads before working with the downloads.
> 
> I hope this is clear. Pan .14.x did it right. Of course, being able to sort 
> the tasks by the various columns available in the task manager would be nice 
> as well, but not necessary.

It's clear, and has been asked for.  Charles did some tweaking, but it
doesn't seem satisfactory to many yet.  A fix will now have to wait until
after 1.0.

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