[Pan-users] [.98] Issues

[Jeff Berman]

Greetings,

Well, good job Charles and everyone!  With version .98, pan is
really coming into its own.  Here are some issues I've found with
.98 on Mac OS X with GTK 2.4.9.  Please let me know if I should add
them to bugzilla.

1) While downloading some binaries, one got stuck.  It showed "98%
Done; 0:00:17 Remaining (1 @ 2 KIB/s)" and never finished, thereby
taking up a connection.  Pressing Stop, Delete, and Redo did
nothing.

2) Changing the number of server connections doesn't take effect
immediately like it used to in .14.2.91.  If a download is in
process, it now waits until the complete binary has been
downloaded.  Is this by design?

3) Likewise, pressing Stop and Delete in the Tasks window don't
seem to take effect until the complete binary has been downloaded,
or until the complete header list has been downloaded.  I haven't
reproduced this one 100% of the time.  I think I asked pan to get
all headers for a group, but then wanted to cancel it as it would
have taken 5-10 minutes to complete.  This is exacerbated by the
fact that pan now seems to use all available connections to load in
headers, so all downloads come to a halt while a header is loading.

4) pan now won't let you download articles while headers are
downloading.

5) The number of active connections displayed in the bottom left
field doesn't seem to ever decrease.  For example, if at one time
there were five connections spanning two servers (four downloading
from server #1 and one retrieving group lists from server #2) then
it always shows that there are five active connections, even after
the group list has been retrieved.

6) The header pane display isn't properly repositioned after
deleting articles.  If you select a few pages of articles and
delete them, pan .14.2.91 would correctly shift the display to show
the articles subsequent to the deleted ones.  It's hard to describe
in words what pan .98 does, but here goes.  If you have 900 header
rows loaded in, and you select and delete rows 400-500, the view
now seems to stay positioned at row 500 instead of rolling back to
the new row 400.  The upshot is that you now have to page up
several pages to reach the deletion point.

7) Sometimes the status fields at the bottom of the window don't
clear out when their tasks are complete.  I had two tasks running
at once, but then it dropped down to one task.  Many minutes later,
the middle status field still showed that it was working on a
long-completed task.

8) Deselecting an article doesn't clear out the body pane like it
used to in .14.2.91; I always considered that a useful feature. 
Likewise, selecting a different group doesn't clear out the header
or body panes.  (This is with the "Single click activates..."
options turned off.)

9) When selecting items for download, there's no indication that
they've been added to the download queue, short of consulting the
Tasks window.  Could this be a GTK/font issue?

10) When re-ordering items in the Tasks window by moving them up or
down, the UI doesn't reflect the new order until the window is
closed and reopened.  Several times, pan spontaneously quit when I
was moving items in the Tasks window like this.

11) Re-ordered items in the Tasks window don't assume their new
download priority until the currently-downloading item completes. 
In pan .14.2.91 the new task order would take effect immediately.

12) Task and Events windows always open up very small and don't
remember their sizes.

13) Events window always defaults to chronological order, unlike
before when it was reverse chronological order.  To me, reverse
order makes more sense since you usually open the Events window to
investigate something that just happened, so it would be convenient
to have the most recent items already at the top.

14) Tasks seem to randomly reorder themselves.  I selected 20 items
for download, then 30 items for download.  The Tasks window shows
the download order to be a few of the first set, then a few of the
second set, then a few of the first set, etc.  This may only occur
when quitting and restarting pan with tasks pending, however.

That's it for now.  Thank you so much for all your hard work, you
guys!

Jeff

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