[Pan-users] More on 0.13.91

[Bobby D. Bryant]

1) Pan has reverted to deleting failed tasks from the queue even if you 
don't have the check-box checked for doing that.  IIRC Pan was doing 
this 2-3 releases ago but got fixed; now it's broken again.

[While we're on the topic, maybe this would be a good place to suggest 
a bit more granularity for the deletion option.  As I understand it the 
server's "423 bad article number" failure message means that the 
article has been purged from the server, so these should presumably be 
deleted regardless of what the user preference is.  However, those of 
us still on phone links get lots of timeouts and stuff that leave the 
tasks well worth trying again, so the option for retaining non-423 
failures needs to be available.]

2) Pan is no longer reserving a channel for browsing in the foreground 
while downloading queued articles, and I can't find the old dialog that 
let you set up the total number of channels to be used and reserve one 
for browsing.  (Am I merely overlooking it somewhere?  At any rate my 
former preference has not been preserved and it's quite impossible to 
get any reading done while you I a backlog queued up; it sometimes 
downloads several large articles while I'm waiting to read a single 
small one.)

3) My log viewer is showing an occasional glib "bad file descriptor" 
error, though I foolishly cleared the log before writing it down.  I'll 
post it next time I spot it, but maybe others will see it first.

Thanks,

Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas