[Pan-users] Re: Score colors disappeared after upgrade to 0.14.2.91

[Duncan]

Juergen Starek
<address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Sat, 03 Jun 2006 18:28:10
+0200:

> By updating my Ubuntu installation from 5.04 to 6.06, my Pan installation
> was upgraded to 0.14.2.91. Now, the score colors I have defined are not
> used in the header pane any more, and read articles are not colorized
> according to my preferences. The scores, however, are still computed
> correctly. 
> 
> I think it's possible that I need to install some GTK libs that may not be
> defined as dependencies of Pan's .deb package. Does anyone have any hints?

Wow, that's old for being a new upgrade.  0.14.2.91, the last 0.14 version,
came out over two years ago, Jan. 24, 2004, was the announcement, so it
would have been over a year old even for Ubuntu 5.04.  As I said, wow!

I can confirm that 0.14.2.91 should honor score color preferences.  It did
here.  Before you go checking deps, however, I'd suggest verifying that
your pan preferences.  Have you tried resetting the colors, perhaps to
something else, and then back, quiting pan, restarting, and seeing if the
score color preferences are now honored?  That's what I'd try first.  If
that doesn't work, /then/ it's time to start digging around in
dependencies.

If you wish, you could also try the newer pan (0.9x series, 0.99 the
latest, to be followed by 0.100 next weekend).  There are debs available
on the rebelbase site, I believe.  However, be cautioned that it's quite
different, and altho it uses far less memory and handles multiple servers
rather better, it's still missing some of the features of 0.14.x, and
others work somewhat differently.  Additionally, it's still beta tho in
fast development (release every weekend, tho Charles is taking a vacation
and skipping this weekend), so some bugs may be expected,  It's up to you
whether you want to try it and help find and fix the bugs, or stick with
the old version where the bugs are fewer and those that exist are well
known.  Release of a stable version based on this code could happen by the
end of the year, altho Ubuntu's pan record would seem to be rather
discouraging in terms of when they would then include it.



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