Re: [Pan-users] feature request: sort the entries in task manager by

[Duncan]

On Thu 06 Feb 2003 01:24, Marcus Kahn posted as excerpted below:
> what do you think about a feature to sort the entries in the taskmanager by
> article-release date, so you could sort the queue in a way, that the oldes
> articles could be downloaded first. other newsreades (as GrabIT on windows
> platforms) have this feature implemented.
>
> it should not be to hard to implement, but people would benefit a lot from
> it.
>
> what do you think?

What do I think?  I think it's a neat feature, worthy of implementation, but 
if I were the lead developer, I'd be more concerned with other things (such 
as the filter code rewrite I understand is now going on, or the eventual back 
end db format change).  I'd implement it tho if someone provided a well 
written patch to do it.  (Hint.  <g>  Said as someone who doesn't do C coding 
yet myself, so just another user in that regard.)

I do that myself, essentially manually, by sorting the display by date, then 
selecting manually using shift-click top to bottom so the first downloaded 
are the oldest ones, when some of the old messages might be about to expire.  
It'd be nice to be able to click a button and have it done automatically, but 
it isn't a must-have feature like better filtering/scoring on more than 
subject and author, IMO, since sorting and d/ling by date is doable manually 
without TO much trouble.

-- 
Duncan
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