Mateusz Viste posted on Wed, 20 Sep 2017 07:36:39 +0000 as excerpted: > I guess the wording might be arranged differently for more clarity. > The option talks about "caching", and by default it is "disabled", but > Pan does cache articles anyway: once I read an article, it stays > available from the local cache. If it would be named "Pre-load > Articles",
Personally, I'd call it downloading the article, because that's what it is, downloading it to local cache, as opposed to saving what's already downloaded. However, pan uses "download" to mean what I'd call "save" (obviously downloading first if not already downloaded), so that's out. Also keep in mind that the automated "actions" are a relatively new pan feature, the last one required to give the C++ rewrite of pan all the functionality (and more) of the old C version, where things worked a bit differently and the same feature was available using what old-pan called "rules". But "rules" were even more unintuitive, and Charles (pan's primary dev for a very long time) was never really satisfied with them as a result, so didn't reimplement them in new- (that is the C++ rewrite) pan. Implementing "actions" was discussed, but he never got to it. Actions were thus implemented later, working as we had discussed on-list several years earlier with Charles, as one of several missing features that Heinrich Mueller implemented when he was active on pan. (Actual binary uploading being the other major missing feature he added, tho there were several less major ones and a number of minor tweaks and code updates as well.) So by then the terminology had to be chosen to work around already existing functionality and terminology, and this is what we got. With that in mind, "cache" makes sense. "Cache locally" would arguably be a bit clearer, but arguably "cache" is clear /enough/ once you've done it manually a few times and know what pan's use of "download" means. Meanwhile, eventually the terminology becomes just one of pan's many quirks to enjoy as you work with it, the user adapting to the software instead of the other way around, but I do in general agree, the terminology is indeed somewhat confusing especially for the relative newbie. -- 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 https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
