Re: [Pan-users] Neat new features in CVS

[Thomas Gamble]

On Friday 24 January 2003 12:57 pm, Charles Kerr wrote:
>
>       * multipart tasks now try to use as many server connections
>       as permitted, rather than just one, so that the task will finish
>       twice (or three times, or four times) as fast.

This is nice and seems to work smoothly.

>
>       * if a "read article" task is added to the task manager,
>       a connection is siphoned off of a multipart task to satisfy
>       the request, then returned to the multipart task after
>       the "read article" task is done.

slick.

All in all, some good improvements.

Comments: 
 - The 'time remaining' column doesn't work when downloading binaries.  It 
does seem to work when reading article though.
 - When stopping and deleting a running task, the status changes to '???', but 
it is not removed from the task manager.
 - The 'offline' button doesn't kick in until the currently running task(s) 
finishes.  It's not a huge problem though unless you want to pause loading a 
large number of headers. Is this what you intended?
 - I don't know if it's on your todo list, but the column headers scroll off 
the top when paging through the task list.  Also, you cannot click-n-drag to 
select tasks.  These are both inconsistent with the rest of PAN.

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