[Pan-users] Feature idea: Image scaling

[John Burwell]

With one button, pan could be made into an excellent newsgroup media 
browser. As a companion to the "Messages with complete binary 
attachments" filter, a "Show only attachments" button could put the 
message pane into an image browser mode, in which the text of a message 
is ignored and only the binary image attachment is shown ... *with* the 
option to scale it up or down to fit the whole image, the full width of 
the pane, or the full height of the pane. Ideally, as much of this 
would happen automatically as possible. (I'm dying for a scaling option 
for attached images... hate scrolling!)

As a touch of refinement: when a non-image attachment is encountered, a 
button to "Save attachment" appears in the message pane rather than the 
dialog that generally comes up. Click the button (or hit a key combo) 
and THEN the dialog should come up. It would be less obtrusive, and it 
would avoid having to deal with an unrequested dialog when a message 
with, for example, an .AVI file attached is accidentally selected in 
the headers pane.

For that matter, an ability to set default location settings for 
attachment files would be great. Then if you select a message with a 
non-image attachment you want to keep, just hit the button, and pan 
takes care of saving it to your specified downloads location.

I've used pan for years now, at first on a linux machine in GNOME and 
now under X11 on Mac OS X. It's hands-down the best newsgroup reader 
out there, regardless of where your interest in newsgroups may lie. 
Keep up the excellent work...