Matej Cepl <mc...@redhat.com> posted h07p4o$ue...@ger.gmane.org, excerpted below, on Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:21:12 +0000:
> Why is this (IMHO, quite basic) functionality not implemneted? Pressing > Ctrl-D,D,C,G fourty times (I have redefined C to be Cache this message) > every morning doesn't feel like state-of-the-art of the 21st century. :) It is slated to be added when the former rules feature replacement for auto-* goes in. This will be score-based, and as discussed, will allow auto-download and auto-cache on the one side and auto-mark-read and auto- delete on the other side, with the same score categories as are already seen in the color tab of preferences and in the view > header menu. Presumably, most people would set watched to auto-download (or auto- cache), with ignored set to auto-delete (or auto-mark-read) and possibly negative set to auto-mark-read. However, the highest category for the negative stuff and the lowest for the positive stuff could be set, so users that want to auto-cache (or auto-download) everything could simply set that to the zero/normal category, or even the ignored category, if desired. That's the last remaining unimplemented feature from old-pan. Honestly, I'm not sure why Charles didn't implement it, except that early on, he wasn't sure exactly what he wanted to do with it except that he knew the old rules feature was way too complex (and I agree, as we had a lot of people asking here for help with it, or for features that were already available using rules), and that he wanted a far simpler setup for new- pan. As the other bit of stuff the rules used to manage was expiration and new-pan already handles that better, the auto-* actions are what remains, and Charles did participate in a discussion where he agreed on the general principle of a preferences tab to setup the auto-actions, as much simpler and a sensible solution. However, it never actually got implemented, and after working very hard on pan for over a year, with nearly weekly updates, he evidently got burnt out and decided to give it a rest. That was nearly two years ago, with one maintenance release, updating pan to compile with new versions of gcc and various libraries as well as fixing a security vuln, at exactly one year after the last previous update. That was version 0.133, released on August 1, 2008. Obviously all us non-coders are eagerly awaiting his return to working on pan, but nobody's quite sure when it might be. FWIW, I had an ebuild that followed the SVN-live version, and updated it relatively frequently, but haven't for awhile, and gnome has moved to GIT now, so I assume pan will too, but haven't updated the ebuild to see if it has or what the new status is. So it's possible Charles has started working on pan again in the last couple months and I just don't know about it yet as I haven't switched the ebuild to git to check. But I don't know for sure that he's moving to git, either. It's unlikely but possible he's sticking with SVN and will move the repository elsewhere when he has to... or maybe already has. Last I checked the pan site, it still referred to the old gnome SVN repository, tho that's not unexpected if Charles isn't doing anything with it at all, nor if he's working on something big like the C++ rewrite we didn't know about for years, so I really don't know. I've said it before and I'm sure I'll say it again. I wish I could code C++. Maybe someday... -- 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
