Re: [Pan-users] Changes in PAN article navigation.

[Charles Kerr]

On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 09:53:06AM +0200, address@hidden wrote:
> The moment i use the keyboard to move to another article, the body-pane
> will blank itself... preventing me from reading _anything_ of that
> article. The same is true when you use middle-click with the mouse to
> "select but not download" an article. I guess these two modes of selection
> (moving the select-box across the screen with the cursors but not pressing
> 'enter' and using the middle mouse-button do pretty much the same thing).
> 
> My question is: is there any particular reason for this behaviour ? It's
> really handicapping my enjoyment of reading news-postings in certain
> groups. My request would be to "disable blanking of body-pane on 'changing
> article selection' actions". Or to allow this to be enabled/disabled in
> preferences.

There's currently a debate going on about this at

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119153