Re: [Pan-users] bug? (selecting group unloads previous group)

[Duncan]

On Sun 09 Feb 2003 21:06, Charles Kerr posted as excerpted below:
> On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 09:47:39PM -0500, Vadim Berezniker wrote:
> > Using 0.13.3.92 with "Click selects instead of activates" in group list.
> > If you load a group, then go back to the list and click on another
> > group, the previously loaded group gets unloaded.
>
> This is an intentional experiment, which I'm neutral on and a few
> people have requested.  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102244 :
>
>   >> Perhaps a blank pane would be better than showing the headers
>   >> of the  previous group. I think it's a little disconcerting
>   >> to have the headers of  the previous group showing in the
>   >> preview pane.
>   >
>   > This is what a few other people have suggested, but IMO the
>   > downside to this is, for example, if I'm in group a, and want
>   > to queue 'new header' tasks for groups b-z, then as soon as
>   > group a loses selection the header pane goes blank.  If I
>   > want to continue in group a, I have to reload it.
>   >
>   > I'll try this change out in 0.13.3.92 and see what kind of
>   > feedback it gets.
>
> opinions?

Cool.  An experiment!  We all get to be guinea pigs!  Yea!  (Hey, that's what 
betas are for.  If you don't like it, don't do betas, and for that matter, 
consider shelving PAN and coming back for the 1.0 release.)

I see both sides.  I use left-click activates, middle-click selects, and have 
found it a bit disconcerting to have one group displayed as selected in the 
group pane, while another one is displayed in the overview (header) pane, but 
when I'm doing it specifically, using select, not activate, that's fine, and 
DOES allow me to continue where I was back in the original overviews if I so 
desire, thus, it's worth a bit of momentary disorientation.

The one that gets me most often, tho, is when I change servers.  Then, I have 
an entirely new set of groups in the group pane, while still displaying the 
old one in the overview pane until I click on a group in the group pane.  
That behavior is NOT as expected, because I activated the new server, not 
just selected it, in my mind.  That's VERY disconcerting to me.

Another focus oddity..  If I click on a column in the overview pane to resort 
overviews, then hit Ctl-A select all, it selects all the GROUPS, in the GROUP 
pane!  I clicked in the OVERVEW (header) pane, NOT the group pane, why does 
select all select all groups, not all overviews?  This usually happens when I 
switch between size sorting, to delete based on size, and subject/date 
sorting, then select all, in ordered to hit the d/l hotkey.  Having it 
suddenly select all in a pane that hasn't had the focus in several minutes, 
instead of the current pane, tends to be rather frustrating.  If I click an 
individual overview first, after sorting but b4 hitting select all, it works 
as expected, but that's hard to remember and not intuitive, and having it 
select all in the group pane is DEFINITELY not intuitive, when I haven't done 
anything there in some time and was just working in the overview pane.

Thus, the old overviews vs. blank overviews on select group, doesn't matter 
much to me, tho I have a slight preference for the old behavior of continuing 
to display old overviews.  Switching servers, however, I'd expect to blank 
the overview pane, the behavor select group is doing now, and even more 
bothersome to me than that is the select all, selecting in the group pane, 
when I just clicked on a column sort in the overview pane.  That one is 
REALLY annoying to me.

-- 
Duncan
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