Re: [Pan-users] Yet Another Feature Request.

[Charles Kerr]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 09:26:18PM -0500, Johan Ovlinger wrote:

> First an idle curiosity: can I read this list over nntp?
> Using mail for discussion of a news reader seems... wrong somehow.

Yes!  Point Pan at the very cool news.gmane.org.

> Maybe a flag to turn the reserved connection on/off and to allow the
> user to change the priorities (sequence of downloading) would be
> nice. If the connection is reserved, do not put new articles first,
> and if not reserved do put them first.
>
> I like the invariant that conncetions eat from the top-of-queue. I
> also like the idea that interactive tasks should [optionally] get a
> reserved connection. 
> 
> However, it would be really cool if we could sort the queue by various
> criteria: order queued, date of posting (since exipiry is hard to
> guess -- however, most binary groups on a server will expire at the
> same rate(?)), or score.  Add a new option to the save dialog: top,
> bottom, and sorted, to insert tasks where they should be according to
> the sorting criteria.
> 
> The big problem I see with this is that sorting is a global action. If
> we manually reorder the queue, and then accidentally resort it, our
> order is gone.  It would also have strange interactions with inserting
> tasks at their "sorted" positions. Where is that in a queue that is no
> longer sorted due to user interaction?

I like these ideas but think the group needs to hash this out somre more. :)