[Pan-users] Re: few questions about new design of Pan

[Duncan]

Benjamin Esham <address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:28:35
+0000:

> Duncan wrote:
> 
>> For the latter, auto-downloading headers (technically overviews, since
>> it's only /some/ headers, not /all/ of them) and bodies, there's no way
>> to do it automatically ATM.  As explained above, however, the feature
>> has been heavily requested, and is planned for post 1.0.
> 
> See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=350373.  Although this
> seems like it would be superseded by the changes you're describing...

Yes, the issue has come up several times so has been discussed several 
times.  The suggestion that made the most sense to me (and that Charles 
basically supplied) was to do it in relation to scoring, since the auto-
delete and mark-read based on scoring had come up too, so might as well 
take care of it all at once.

As Charles proposed, it would be a series of checkboxes (the original 
proposal was for auto-download only for watched, auto-delete only for 
ignored, etc, but it grew from there).  Since then however, there was a 
post where I explored the GUI options, and the triple dropdowns as 
described seemed the simplest and least space intensive way to lay it 
out.  Doing it with checkboxes would require either the three action 
checkboxes for each of the six scoring levels, or six scoring checkboxes 
for each of the three auto-actions.  Listing the three actions, with a 
scoring dropdown for each, definitely seemed simpler to me.

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