[Pan-users] Re: Not able to select more than one group.

[Duncan]

Darren Albers
<address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Sun, 30 Jul
2006 10:45:38 -0400:

> mattman^ wrote:
>> I see that when I right click on a group I still have the option to
>> "Download new headers in selected groups", however, when I click on one
>> group, hold shift, then click on one below it, it just changes over the
>> second group listed, it doesn't highlight all of them. Holding Ctrl and
>> individually clicking them does the same thing. Anybody else
>> experiencing this? Running 104 on windows.
>>
> This was discussed a couple of days ago and it looks like the Pre-1.0
> series does no actually let you do actions on more than one group. The bug
> was filed here:  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=348445
> 
> It looks like it is unlikely to be fixed for 1.0 and most likely the
> wording will be changed to "Download new headers in selected group".
> 
> If you would like to have that reconsidered vote on the bug report.

I filed the bug, and find the current behavior less than ideal, but I'd
not like to hold up 1.0 for it, if fixing it is as complex as Charles
says.  The thing is, changes that complex are likely to introduce other
bugs, and with 1.0 targeted for August (and Debian anyway hoping to get
it in their next stable, freeze in Sept), introducing something like that
now may mean not hitting that target, or a buggy stable release if we go
ahead and try.  IMO, it's simply not worth it for a minor feature such as
this.  I'd like to see it for 1.1, but not for 1.0 unless someone's got a
trick for it that isn't as complex as Charles thinks it'll be.

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