[Pan-users] Re: Two options I REALLY miss

[Duncan]

Bruce Bowler <address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Wed, 25
Apr 2007 09:19:02 -0400:

> There are 2 options that got dropped from the 0.1xx line that were in
> the 0.14.x line that I REALLY REALLY miss.  They are options that I used
> at least weekly, if not daily...
> 
> While I understand the desire to minimize code bloat, they are 2 options
> that I consider essential in a news reader.
> 
> They are "Print article" and "Email article".
> 
> Any chance they'll be making a comeback?  If I could pick only 1, it
> would be print.  I realize there are workarounds, but they are, IMHO,
> all a pain, and make the application less than user friendly.

The print article feature is feature-request bugged.  Charles says it 
/will/ be making a comeback at some point (and IIRC the accels.txt hotkey 
dump still has a reserved print function, that doesn't work ATM, of 
course), but he's planning on using the newly added to GTK print 
functionality when he does add it back.  According to the last discussion 
I saw, it's actually in released GTK now, but only the last version or 
two.  So anyway, when it /does/ return, don't expect it to work on old 
GTK-2.6 versions or the like, as they don't include the functionality pan 
will be using.

I expect (read as this is my thoughts, not necessarily Charles', maybe 
I've read too much between the lines that might not be there) that'll be 
a feature added in the feature-burst after 1.0 stable comes out, pre-1.1 
stable.  Really, pan has been in more or less of a feature freeze since 
July or August, as the bugs have been slowly worked out on the way toward 
1.0 stable.  Thus, it has been some time since features have been freely 
added, and there's a bit of a backup now waiting until after 1.0 stable.  
I honestly have no idea whether Charles plans to stabilize one feature at 
a time but fairly quickly, thus progressing rapidly thru 1.1 stable, 1.2 
stable, etc, or whether he intends to add several of the much requested 
ones pre-1.1 and stabilize that over perhaps a year or so again.

You mentioned workarounds, so you probably already know about the save 
text, open in your favorite text editor or whatever, and print from 
there, and that's just not cutting it.  If you didn't know, well, that's 
how I'd do it, anyway.

As for mailing article, pan has that functionality now, tho it uses the 
configured mailer helper now instead of handling it all itself.  As such, 
I'm not sure what exactly you are referring to as missing now.  If you 
just don't have it configured right and thus can't use it, perhaps we can 
get that fixed.  If instead you want pan to handle mail itself as it used 
to, that's not likely to happen.  If it's something else, perhaps a bit 
more detail is in order.  Anyway, there /is/ mail functionality, so if 
it's that you are missing, you know to look closer and try to figure out 
the config now, since it definitely works as I use it regularly to 
forward articles to myself.  (I use news for expiring things, like this 
mailing list, which I see as a newsgroup thru gmane.org's list2news 
services, but file tech posts I want to keep in my mail client.)

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