Thufir <hawat.thu...@gmail.com> posted gupomg$o1...@ger.gmane.org, excerpted below, on Sun, 17 May 2009 19:31:29 +0000:
> Would it be possible to add a "score" to groups in addition to > subscribe/ unsubscribe? I don't, nor do I imagine others, post and read > all groups equally. ?? The first bit of the scoring dialog deals with the group, so it's easy enough to score based on group. But I suspect what you're wanting instead is a way to categorize or at least reorder the subscribed groups list, basically, to allow a deeper tree, with more than two layers. That has been on the requested list for some time. There is a (somewhat crude) workaround, however. This is what I do. When pan first starts it checks the PAN_HOME environmental variable and if set, looks in that dir for its data and config files (if unset, it uses the default ~/.pan2). Thus, not only can you set and export this variable in the environment pan will see in ordered to move the directory elsewhere, but by creating several pan starter scripts, each of which sets this variable differently, it's possible to run multiple pan instances, each with its own data and settings. I use this feature to keep three pan instances, text, bin, and test, thus keeping my text and binary groups separate from each other and avoiding "dirtying" my normal subscribed groups with temporary subscriptions when I'm just browsing, while also allowing different settings (cache size, for instance) for each instance. Of course, you could setup the instances however you wanted, mp3s vs iso images vs still-pix, for instance. While I'm at it, I use the script to set a couple other things before I start pan as well. Here's my pan.bin script, for the binary instance. ($PANDIR is set in my .bashrc, and each instance script sets PAN_HOME as a subdir thereof. x is substituted for my username for posting purposes.) #!/bin/bash export GTK2_RC_FILES="/etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:/home/x/.gtkrc-2.0:/home/x/ kde3.5/share/config/gtkrc-2.0" export PAN_HOME=$PANDIR/bin cd ~/pan/scraps exec /usr/bin/pan $* You can then setup menus or other launchers (I use kmenu here, then attach a hotkey to it to launch directly without opening the menu) as you normally would, but pointing at the appropriate starter script instead of at the pan executable directly, while deleting the original pan menu entry. While pan only has one level of subscribed groups, one can thus limit the subscribed groups for a particular pan instance, thus keeping the length of an individual instance's subscribed groups list manageable for those of us who subscribe to many different groups. -- 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
