Re: [Pan-users] Re: ANN: Pan 0.97 "Atoz and Tanda"

[Charles Kerr]

Duncan wrote:

> OTOH, I'm seeing smileys as graphical monstrosities, instead of as text,
> the latter being my definite preference!  Please, I don't mind the
> monstrosities being the default, but please please please, I prefer to see
> smilies and markup as original text, so I need the option to turn it off
> displaying them graphically has to be a feature at all. If I want fancy
> markup, I'll use a web browser!

It's in View|Body Pane.  Maybe it should be in the prefs dialog.

> IOW, the other panes are there but folded up as far as they will go, with
> the groups pane taking all the space.  At first, I thought it had switched
> to tabs mode or disabled overviews/headers and body panes entirely, but it
> hadn't.  They were simply folded up to the top and left.
>
> Yes, resetting it and closing and opening PAN results in the same huge
> groups, nothing else showing. In case it matters, Gentoo AMD64 system,
> compiled using gcc-4.1.0.

What do the geometry, main-window-hpane-position, and
main-window-vpane-position fields say in $PAN_HOME/preferences.xml?
(Also, let's move this subthread to a bugzilla ticket.)

> Finally, there's a bytes column listed in preferences, unchecked by
> default, but checking it doesn't seem to display it.  I had missed that
> feature in the old PAN but learned to work around it.  It'd be really nice
> to have in the new one, but right now, it's teasing me!  It says it's
> there to display, but nothing!  =8^(

Done for 0.98.

> I could still /really/ use that expanded threads by default option.  =8^) 
> That and the fact that I kept using the wrong profile to post with because
> PAN wouldn't remember it.

My guess is that a prefs for expanded threads is pre-1.0; remembering
posting profiles is post-1.0.  For one thing, lots of new users found
the per-group profile memory unintuitive, so IMO something clearer
needs to replace it.

Open a pair of bugzilla tickets for these, please.

> (BTW, that draft feature is nice.  I used it to double-verify that the
> hogging groups pane thing happened consistently on pan open, before coming
> back to finish the post.)

Ha!  It grew out of a desire to simplify pan.sendlater... :)

cheers,
Charles