[Pan-users] Re: font spacing and attachment directory

[Duncan]

jef_e <address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Sun, 30 Jul
2006 10:40:08 -0400:

> Can the line spacing in the Header pane be decreased so that there isn't
> so much white space between them? In the old version, at my screen
> resolution and font choice, I can get about 50-51 items in the pane at a
> time. With the new version, the spacing only allows me about 39-40, and
> that's including the extra space I get having the Find function moved up
> to the main toolbar

There has been some debate on the line spacing in the header pane. 
Christophe Lambin was the one that commented how much larger it was, I
believe, back in April/May? I think it was if you want to check the list
archive.  IIRC it has already been reduced some. Perhaps more is in order?
Do keep in mind that new-pan signifies unread posts in an unexpanded
subthread using underlines, now, so room for that must be maintained.

> Also, now that you can set the Save Attachments directory on a per group
> basis, am I still able to change the default globally? I don't want to use
> the built-in default as I save things to a different partition from my
> home dir, and I'd like to avoid having to change it for each and every
> group.

I haven't done any binaries in awhile so I've not setup save locations,
and therefore am not sure if it's still used or not, but in
~/.pan2/preferences.xml, I still see an entry similar to the following:

<string name='default-save-attachments-path' value='/home/user'/>

I'm guessing you can text-edit that entry directly, pointing to where you
want it to be.  Note that from my limited investigation anyway, it appears
pan adds /News to that, which would make the example above
/home/user/News.  The /News part may be hard coded, but I'm guessing you
can set the default path prefix, anyway.

If you have a lot of groups to edit, you may also wish to try text editing
the group-preferences.xml file.  A global search and replace there,
possibly with prompt for each change if you are changing only some of
them, should be far faster than using the GUI group preferences dialog for
each group individually!

Of course, there's also the other handy dandy Unix solution, symlinks.  =8^)

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