[Pan-users] Re: 0.129 - a few minor issues

[Jim Henderson]

On Sat, 12 May 2007 23:50:01 -0500, Charles Kerr wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> Just built and installed 0.129 and overall I like it a lot - thanks for
>> all the hard work, Charles!
>> 
>> I've noticed a few odd things, though:
>> 
>> 1.  Sometimes when I pull down new messages, I see the new message
>> header count in the newsgroup list, and if I go through all of the
>> messages that are unread, Pan tells me that there is still an unread
>> message.  I've assigned a hotkey to the "read/unread" item in the
>> header view menu, and if I show all messages and then immediately show
>> the unread messages, the remaining unread messages show up.  There
>> doesn't seem to be a pattern to this behaviour, at least not that I can
>> see.
> 
> Please file a new bugzilla ticket for this -- and for most of the other
> items on this list.  I'll never be able to keep track of them otherwise.
> :)

Will do, probably this week (today's going to be a busy day for me) - 
mostly I wanted to start by seeing if anyone had seen these issues first.

>> 2.  It would be nice if it were possible to set a posting profile on
>> multiple groups at the same time.
> 
> I'd want to see more votes for this before I'd write it.  I could see
> the "group preferences" dialog supporting multiple groups at once,
> though if the groups started off with different settings, what would the
> dialog show when it first popped up?

Maybe a greyed out value - that's how much of the software I use that 
supports this type of feature does - if you multi-select and look at 
attributes of objects (say in eDirectory administration interfaces), the 
value is blank if it's different across different objects.  If it's not 
changed, then the value is left alone on all entries, allowing you to do 
things like change the directory but not the posting profile.

>> 3.  It would also be nice if the group list could be sorted by news
>> server - I'm still getting used to having all the groups in one list,
>> but having groups from one news server interspersed with groups from
>> another news server causes me to have to shift gears more often than I
>> otherwise would.
> 
> This isn't likely to happen, though there is a ticket for being able to
> "group" the newsgroups into clusters, which would serve a similar
> purpose.

Yeah an arbitrary grouping would work for this as well - just the 
arbitrary groups set up could be centered around news servers - but that 
would be a user setup, not something to be coded.  I like the more 
generic approach.

>> 5.  It would be helpful if the scores for a thread were calculated and
>> that value displayed when a thread is not expanded.
> 
> It's coded to do that, unless it's broken recently. Please file a ticket
> for this too.

Will do, I'll get a screenshot to include.

>> 6.  I also have to say I preferred in 0.14.x when the entire line in
>> the header pane was colour coded, rather than just the score column.
> 
> File a ticket. :)

Will do as well.

Thanks again for all your work on this. :-)

Jim