[Pan-users] Re. how should pan let users sort by active threads?

[crglur]

On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 Charles Kerr wrote:

What is an 'active' thread ?
On my v 0.14.2 the sequence of displaying the headers, also of threaded
headers, is independant of whether the article has been fetched or not.
Or does 'active' mean it's still on the NewsServer ?

> Right now the header pane's date column shows that row's article's date.
> This is straightforward, but when sorting you get the date of the first
> post in a thread.  But what if you're looking for active threads?
> In that case, you really want to sort by the newest followup's date.
> 
So you've got a list which potentially contains sub-lists ?
And the list is displayed most-recent first ?
And the sub-lists are dispalyed first-in is displayed first ?

> I'm leaning towards adding a second date column named "follow-up".
> The good thing is that it's obvious how to use it.
> The bad thing is that it's yet another column. :)
> 
> Can anyone think of a cleaner, but still obvious, way to do this?

Don't do it.   Beter just make a note in the 'HAND-BOOK'.
Resist the temptation to fiddle unneccesarily [?pan would catch these 
spelling mistakes?].

== Chris Glur.

PS.
Altho I subscribed to this list via my crappy Gmail account, in case it
was withdrawn due to non usage, I'll now try and mudge the 
send-URL to use my proper mailserver.  Lets see if it works.

PSS. the bottom of this 'Pan-users Digest, Vol 44, Issue 8' read:
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    which is different from
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These are the little faults which need to be weeded out ?

PSSS. I'm still waiting for someone to suggest that "if my
v 0.14.2 installation doesn't 'go to the first [or any] of the
last downloaded [as a result of being previously flagged]
articles, via <shift> 'n' or the 2 mouseable commands, then
it must be broken".

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