Re: [Pan-users] Feedback wanted for Filter rewrite

[Wolf J . Flywheel]

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On Wednesday 03 April 2002 15:26, Toby Inkster wrote:

> Why don't you just forget about requiring the OK button? You press
> Shift+F to pull up the dialog and then as you type alt-b and alt-n,
> the changes are automatically applied to the list in the main window
> without having to press OK.

        I, for one, would not appreciate such behavior; I think allowing me to 
set several filters *before* applying changes would be a good idea.  
Now, here's why.
        If you have a custom filter (say, for Spam) with regular expressions 
in it, this slows filtering way down.  The more regexes you have, the 
slower the filter becomes.  My box is a dual-P3 at 800MHz, and I speak 
from experience when I say that in a group with 100,000 articles it can 
take almost a minute to apply my Spam filter (which has many regexes 
and will have more complex ones as I get better at writing them) to 
such a newsgroup.  If I wanted to change filters in a new group, say 
turn off all but complete binaries and apply a few regex filters, I 
would not want to wait a minute for Pan to reorganize itself each time 
I clicked; I'd rather have it all happen at once when I'm done.

        Of course, we could both be satisfied if there were a checkbox on the 
dialog to toggle this behavior, such as in The GIMP where some 
(graphics) filters have "Preview" checkboxes.  I would probably leave 
my Preview checkbox turned off most of the time.  :)

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