Re: [Pan-users] Feature requests

[Charles Kerr]

On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 10:24:25PM +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> First I want to say that Pan is probably the best news reader that I've used, 
> and I've tried a few. But even the best can be made better and there are two 
> features that I miss:
> 
> The first feature request concerns the directory for saving attachments. By 
> default they go to News/Pan, or to the directory you supply yourself. I'd 
> really like to see a checkbox to set the default to News/<groupname>. I'm 
> pretty sure I've come across a similar feature in another newsreader and I 
> think it makes a lot of sense. I don't want to manually supply every group 
> with its own save directory.

I like this idea, and have slated it for 0.12.0:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75591
> 
> The second feature request is less important, just something to make things a 
> bit easier: when downloaded attachments of a set of messages I want to 
> continue with other groups while the download takes place in the background. 
> You can tell Pan to reserve a connection for reading messages, but you cannot 
> use that same reserved connection for downloading the latest headers. Instead 
> you have to wait until one of the background downloads has finished. A 
> checkbox 'Also use reserved connection to download new headers' is just what 
> I'd like to see.

I agree that connection reservations needs improvement but I'd like to see
more discussion on this here on pan-users... does anyone else like this idea
or have different suggestions?