[Pan-users] Re: Some remarks about the user interface

[Duncan]

Charles Kerr <address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Wed, 27 Sep 2006 18:14:16
-0500:

> Rhialto wrote:
> 
>> - Drag-select doesn't work anymore even though it is a basic GUI
>>   concept. This is very inconvenient, I would call it a showstopper.
> 
> Ha, I'm glad you asked for this!  This is a gtk+ bug, not a Pan one,
> it's come up so many times that I'd bookmarked the gtk+ bugzilla ticket
> to refer people there to say "me too".  I was about to do that here,
> but I see that GtkTreeView finally got drag-select as of gtk+ 2.10.
> So I'll have this working in the next release w/gtk+ >= 2.10.0.
> (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80127)

They /actually/ got it fixed?  Next pan against gtk+ >= 2.10.0 will have
all methods working?  Yeehaw COOL!  =8^)

> The duplicate articles are a known and fixed bug.  However the fix
> doesn't retroactively prune out duplicates that you've already
> downloaded, so you should rm ~/.pan2/groups/*, then install the
> latest version of Pan.

Careful, Charles, about recommending blowing away the entire thing.  Some
of us have customizations we would be rather unhappy if we lost,
particularly if we did so just following instructions to fix an entirely
unrelated problem.

It appears it's the files in the groups subdir that need to be blown away,
possibly along with the newsrc files.  Do that and redownload and
re-mark-read as needed.  That'll keep most other settings and cache
intact, more so if blowing away the newsrc files can be avoided.

... Talking about which... that reminds me it's about time to do a system
backup again...

>> - How are the different (primary) newsservers related anyway? I can't
>>   seem to choose between them or anything.
> 
> Connections are all grouped together in a pool, and a task waiting
> in the queue snatches the next available connection in the pool.
> First it looks for connections in the primary pool, then the secondary
> one, and so on.  (ask Duncan about having more than two tiers)

I like that pool description.  Cleared up the basically accurate but
rather fuzzy concept I had of it, as well.  =8^)  As for more than two
tiers, already answered in an earlier reply. =8^)

>> - I'd like my times expressed in 24 hour format please.
> 
> This would make a good preferences option.
> Please open a bugzilla ticket for this.

Glad you agree too. =8^)

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