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

[Charles Kerr]

Duncan wrote:
> 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.

The margin is currently set to one pixel.  This can be tweaked by
changing the 1 after "xpad"  in pan/gui/header-pane.cc's
build_tree_columns().

I don't think that GtkTreeView is going to get us the same number of
rows as GtkCTree regardless of the margins we use.

> > 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.

This is the value used in the entry field in the "Save" dialog.
It always remembers the last value of that field.

> 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.

No, that's just the initial default.  And maybe that should go away;
it's something of an anachronism.

> 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^)

:)

cheers,
Charles