[Pan-users] Re: ANN: Pan 0.93 "It's like living inside a bouncy castle!"

[Duncan]

Charles Kerr posted
<address@hidden>, excerpted
below,  on Sat, 15 Apr 2006 19:54:07 -0500:

> The regular Sunday release is a few hours early this week. :) Lots of big
> bugfixes this time, plus the return of the Preferences dialog. 

I) The prefs dialog is missing some rather vital (to me) functionality.

a) I need my font colors prefs back!  I prefer light text on a dark
background, and actually use a military-green type window background. 
With that sort of background, some of the default colors don't show up
well /at/ /all/.

b) Is there a way to set expanded threads as the default?

c) I too want a configurable score file location -- or at least a toggle
that will put it in the pan2 dir rather than News.

II)  How does one mark as unread once again? That's critical functionality
for the way I track newsgroups.  (It should have shift-M as the default
accel, reversing M for mark-read.)

III)  Talking about the "M" keyboard action, it's used in two places, for
mark-read, and to toggle Monospace (used to be "C", could be that again.)

IV)  Customizable keyboard accelerators again?  I had quite a few keys
remapped.  I used "R" to toggle the match-read-articles view-filter, for
instance, as I use that frequently to let me retrieve an upline post for
review.

V)  How does one download to cache without reading or saving?  I never
used the "flag" functionality, but I certainly did select large numbers of
overviews and download to cache, to go back thru later, after they were
downloaded.

a) Talking about cache, how is that managed now?  I didn't see a cache
size setting in preferences.  If you recall, I'm the one that requested
the max cache size bump to multiple gig, as stuff kept expiring before I
had a chance to look at it because the cache simply wasn't big enough.  (I
normally run about a 4 gig cache for binaries.)

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