[Pan-users] Re: automagic cache

[Thufir]

On Mon, 04 May 2009 12:45:59 +0000, Duncan wrote:


> Do note that pan's default cache size is only 10 MB, however, so this
> wouldn't work too well for binaries unless you increase the cache size.
> That's possible by editing preferences.xml, but not from the GUI, as
> again, Charles decided that was too complex an option to expose to "mere
> users".  Well, I guess pan /is/ a GNOME family application, even if it
> only requires GTK not all of GNOME installed.  As such, I suppose it's
> to be expected that it gets infected with the "users are scared of too
> many options" meme that so frustrates many power and KDE users trying to
> use Gnome and Gnome family apps.  OTOH, there's others, the "I just want
> it to work as it is, I get confused if there's too many options" folks,
> that do just that, get confused, by all the options typically exposed by
> a KDE app, so whatever.


You're over-thinking it.

It all sounds good, thanks for the info :)


-Thufir