Hi, If a group is in the process of downloading headers from the server, and then you activate another group and then activate the original group, the "Get Headers from Server" window will pop up again, even though headers are already, um, getting. I'll file this as a bug. Also, if you leave the window up and then activate another empty group, a second "Get Headers from Server" window will pop up, but there's no way to tell which window applies to which newsgroup. Perhaps only one window should be allowed at a time or else the newsgroup name should appear in the title.
The second issue is extremely nitpicky, so feel free to disregard... but I, in all my quirkiness, find the behavior of this window a little nagging. Currently, there's no way to tell at a glance if a group is empty or contains already-read messages. The only way to find out is by entering (what pan calls "activating") the group. Since I use pan mostly for downloading binaries, my reading behavior is to enter a group, grab what I want, and then delete the remaining headers. (So Charles, thank you for returning ctrl-shift-D!) Once I get everything going in the download queue, I'll often mark the group as read (as a note to myself that I've already covered that group) and move on to the next group; when downloading is complete (and no extra pars are needed) then I'll go back and delete all the headers. So what happens with pan2 is that every time I activate a group to see if it has any contents, that window pops up if the group was empty. Maybe it's me, but I prefer the old behavior where pan would only prompt you the first time a group was accessed. For me, I'd rather activate a group, see that it's empty, and then decide on my own how to proceed. If this were to be fixed, in my opinion controlling the popping-up of this window would be better than to indicate somehow that a group contains already-read articles (although that would be nice, too). I realize that the intent is to help users, but there's something about those pop-ups that reminds me of Windows trying to think for me by repeatedly offering to hide unused desktop icons. :-) Sorry... I told you it was nitpicky. But as always, thank you so much to the developer(s) for all your hard work! 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
