Greetings, Well, good job Charles and everyone! With version .98, pan is really coming into its own. Here are some issues I've found with .98 on Mac OS X with GTK 2.4.9. Please let me know if I should add them to bugzilla.
1) While downloading some binaries, one got stuck. It showed "98% Done; 0:00:17 Remaining (1 @ 2 KIB/s)" and never finished, thereby taking up a connection. Pressing Stop, Delete, and Redo did nothing. 2) Changing the number of server connections doesn't take effect immediately like it used to in .14.2.91. If a download is in process, it now waits until the complete binary has been downloaded. Is this by design? 3) Likewise, pressing Stop and Delete in the Tasks window don't seem to take effect until the complete binary has been downloaded, or until the complete header list has been downloaded. I haven't reproduced this one 100% of the time. I think I asked pan to get all headers for a group, but then wanted to cancel it as it would have taken 5-10 minutes to complete. This is exacerbated by the fact that pan now seems to use all available connections to load in headers, so all downloads come to a halt while a header is loading. 4) pan now won't let you download articles while headers are downloading. 5) The number of active connections displayed in the bottom left field doesn't seem to ever decrease. For example, if at one time there were five connections spanning two servers (four downloading from server #1 and one retrieving group lists from server #2) then it always shows that there are five active connections, even after the group list has been retrieved. 6) The header pane display isn't properly repositioned after deleting articles. If you select a few pages of articles and delete them, pan .14.2.91 would correctly shift the display to show the articles subsequent to the deleted ones. It's hard to describe in words what pan .98 does, but here goes. If you have 900 header rows loaded in, and you select and delete rows 400-500, the view now seems to stay positioned at row 500 instead of rolling back to the new row 400. The upshot is that you now have to page up several pages to reach the deletion point. 7) Sometimes the status fields at the bottom of the window don't clear out when their tasks are complete. I had two tasks running at once, but then it dropped down to one task. Many minutes later, the middle status field still showed that it was working on a long-completed task. 8) Deselecting an article doesn't clear out the body pane like it used to in .14.2.91; I always considered that a useful feature. Likewise, selecting a different group doesn't clear out the header or body panes. (This is with the "Single click activates..." options turned off.) 9) When selecting items for download, there's no indication that they've been added to the download queue, short of consulting the Tasks window. Could this be a GTK/font issue? 10) When re-ordering items in the Tasks window by moving them up or down, the UI doesn't reflect the new order until the window is closed and reopened. Several times, pan spontaneously quit when I was moving items in the Tasks window like this. 11) Re-ordered items in the Tasks window don't assume their new download priority until the currently-downloading item completes. In pan .14.2.91 the new task order would take effect immediately. 12) Task and Events windows always open up very small and don't remember their sizes. 13) Events window always defaults to chronological order, unlike before when it was reverse chronological order. To me, reverse order makes more sense since you usually open the Events window to investigate something that just happened, so it would be convenient to have the most recent items already at the top. 14) Tasks seem to randomly reorder themselves. I selected 20 items for download, then 30 items for download. The Tasks window shows the download order to be a few of the first set, then a few of the second set, then a few of the first set, etc. This may only occur when quitting and restarting pan with tasks pending, however. That's it for now. Thank you so much for all your hard work, you guys! Jeff __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
