On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:48:13 +0000, Duncan wrote: > walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 > 00:57:30 +0000: > >> On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:20:15 +0000, Jim Henderson wrote: >> >>> I just noticed (as a result of a conversation with another NNTP user >>> about this) that 0.132 doesn't seem to display the description fields >>> returned by the news server when using the "list newsgroups" command. >> >> Well, pan fetches the descriptions from the news servers and stores >> them in ~/.pan2/newsgroups.dsc -- and then ignores that file >> completely. >> >> I can only surmise that Charles intend[s,ed] to do something with that >> file sometime in the future, but only Charles knows for certain :o/ > > Yes, he must. "pan2" being a full rewrite in a different language (C++ > while old-pan was C), he had to have intentionally coded that bit of > fetching and saving in there. He just hasn't coded a GUI to display it, > it would seem. I've no clue how he intends it to be displayed or when > he intends to code it. None. At. All.
Yeah, I seem to recall that when the rewrite started, he wanted to start with a fairly basic UI redesign and then add back in features that people thought were valuable. The back-end rewrite has been brilliant from a performance standpoint, too - one of the main reasons I'm using the new version rather than 0.14 - though I have to admit that I really miss the rules capability in 0.14. The scoring stuff just doesn't do it for me here (though I do use it). > Well, at least now that you've pointed out that the file's there, people > can open it with a text editor if they want. I supposed that's better > than nothing, but it's not GUI user friendly by any means. Agreed. I didn't even realise it was there, so that's one step better than where I was. :-) Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
