[Pan-users] More on 0.11.4 --> 0.13.2.91

[Bobby D. Bryant]

Here are some more things I have noticed after upgrading.  Mostly 
little stuff, but the old way was really convenient in a lot of cases.

 o In the task manager you can no longer select multiple consecutive 
entries by dragging the mouse across them.

 o When using ^s for the save dialog, you no longer get the drop-down 
list of recent save locations.  (You only get the single most recent 
one, or the default if you just started Pan.)

 o If you download an article by clicking it, it shows up in the task 
manager as "downloading 1 articles" rather than giving the article's 
subject line as it previously did.  (Articles being downloaded as the 
result of ^s _do_ still show the subject lines in the task manager.)

 o If you download an article by _either_ ^s or by clicking it, the 
status bar at the bottom of the main window shows the article's cryptic 
ID string rather than the subject line.  Having the subject line was 
really helpful.

 o Maybe I just haven't found it yet, but the new Pan seems to be 
missing the previous function that would let you select a posted image 
and type 'o' to download, decode, and pop it up in an external viewer 
such as Electric Eyes.

 o When all three panes are showing and the group or article header 
panes need a horizontal scrollbar, clicking on the bar between the 
slider and the arrow does not jump-scroll the pane.  (However, it 
_does_ work correctly on the vertical scrollbars.  Is this perhaps a 
GTK issue?)

 o In some situations Pan does not properly put an X beside an article 
that gave "bad article number" when you tried to save it, so when you 
next visit the newsgroup you cannot tell that you tried to download it 
and failed.  I _think_ this only happens if you move on to another 
newsgroup before the error occurs.  (I think the icon that indicates 
that a file has been saved to disk is misbehaving in the same way.)

BTW, the new version is noticably more stable, and of course I 
appreciate the spellchecker.  Keep up the good work!

Thanks,

Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas