Re: [Pan-devel] Articlelist number of sub threads

[Jacob Ilsø Christensen]

On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 18:17, Charles Kerr wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 05:06:19PM +0200, Jacob Ilsø Christensen wrote:
> > Hi.
> > 
> > I have been playing a bit around with the way the subject is presented
> > in the articlelist. As it is now, multipart messages will have (n) added
> > to the end of the subject where n is the number of new parts in the
> > message (if there are new messages and the message is not expanded).
> > 
> > I would like the ability to show this _and_ the total number of parts
> > retrieved so  far. Something like:
> > 
> > Subject A (10 new) (30 of 35) .
> > 
> > This would mean that 10 new parts are in the message and a total of 30
> > parts have been retrieved so far.
> > 
> > Any comments, ideas?
> 
> I guess I'm not understanding what this would be used for.
> Is the 30 the number of cached messages in the thread?
> 

No, 30 is the number of parts available on the news server. So in the
above example 5 parts are missing on the server.

This way it is easier to see how close the article is to being complete
(green icon).

/Jacob