Re: [Pan-users] Re: Offline Reading in Pan

[Will Shattuck]

On 10/26/06, Duncan <address@hidden> wrote:
> "Will Shattuck" <address@hidden>
> posted address@hidden,
> excerpted below, on  Thu, 26 Oct 2006 08:51:50 -0700:
>
> > I'll have to post a feature request for adding an "Offline"
> > function that automagically downloads the bodies and one for a GUI
> > location to set the offline cache setting.
>
> I don't believe the cache size setting will be made a GUI option.  Charles
> is trying hard to keep the preferences fairly simple, and the existing
> setting works decently well for text users and those binary users that
> save files off directly rather than downloading to cache.  Having the
> setting exposed in the config file where it can be tweaked via text editor
> is fine.  There are a number of other "advanced" settings only
> configurable by tweaking the config files directly, too, so this isn't the
> only one.

That makes perfect sense.  I won't request it then.  Thanks.

> The automagically downloading bodies feature would be nice, tho.  It's
> likely to be available at least for watched messages for 1.1 as part of
> the auto-handle-scoring stuff (so along with auto-delete ignored,
> auto-mark-read negative scored).  After the functionality is added for
> that, it should be fairly easy to simply add a checkbox to do it for all
> non-negative scored posts, instead of just watched posts.

Sounds good.  I'll keep looking for the addition.

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