Thufir <hawat.thu...@gmail.com> posted gtlf5q$4o...@ger.gmane.org, excerpted below, on Mon, 04 May 2009 01:08:10 +0000:
> feature request: please add an option to automagically cache articles. That's on the list to be added along with the other auto-* options (total of four, auto-cache, auto-download, auto-mark-read, auto-delete) that were formerly possible in old-pan using its rules feature. That's the only major old-pan feature yet to be implemented in new-pan and it's definitely missed, but Charles thought the old implementation was too complicated (and we /did/ get people asking either directly about how rules worked, or how to do stuff rules covered, relatively frequently, so he does have a point). The proposed new implementation would add a automatic actions tab to the preferences dialog, with the ability to assign score levels to each of the actions. Thus, you could either use scoring to upscore your desired posts and set auto-cache for the desired level, or set auto-cache to match at the zero level (or even negative or ignored, for that matter) so all normal posts would be auto-cached. 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. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
