Re: [Pan-users] Setting group preferences for multiple groups

[Heinrich Mueller]

On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:29:57 +0000, Duncan wrote:

> Robert Kochem posted on Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:10:58 +0000 as excerpted:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I just tried to change the group preference (in detail the used
>> profile)
>> for multiple newsgroups. But the changes do only affect one newsgroup.
>> I assume this is a bug - can someone confirm this?
> 
> I'd not call it a bug so much as a first iteration of the implementation
> that was never changed...  IOW, AFAIK (I've been a primary pan list
> regular for years but don't claim to be a dev) that's the way the
> implementation worked as originally designed, but I'm not sure it was
> intended to stay that way "forever".
> (...)
> IOW, it shouldn't be /too/ difficult to change either the default or
> multiple groups at once, you just have to think non-pan-GUI method to do
> it. =:^/

You're right, I came across this "feature" yesterday. In the source code,
only the first group that was selected is chosen, but it should be easy
enough to iterate through the whole selection and apply the changes to
all. If I find the time, I'll do it.

Cheers.