Re: [Pan-users] Action not working in Pan from git.

[Christian Dysthe]

Hi,

On May 19, 2014 5:47:24 PM Duncan <address@hidden> wrote:

> Christian Dysthe posted on Mon, 19 May 2014 15:30:34 -0500 as excerpted:
>
> > I've successfully built Pan 0.140 from git, but the action "Mark
> > articles read scoring at.." doesn't work like it did in 0.139. The
> > messages are not being marked read. The only way to get them made read
> > is to use the context menu for the group and choose "Mark selected group
> > read". In 0.139 (as packaged for Ubuntu 14.04) the action works as
> > expected. Is this a bug, or am I missing some new setting or option?
>
> That would be a bug.  However, a couple notes:
>
> 1) While I have that action set (for articles scored low, that is, -9998 to 
> -1), I rarely venture beyond the gmane.org list2news service these days
> [1], and the gmane lists see little enough abuse that I really don't 
> actively use scoring... and probably haven't actually tested that setting 
> since 0.139's release and the bump to 0.140 for the git version.  So 
> unfortunately I can't really confirm either way.

I need this setting for a news group with a couple of very active trolls I 
have scored out for years. :-)
> 2) Did you build pan against gtk2 or gtk3?  While the gtk3 build is said to 
> work in general, building pan against gtk2 is strongly recommended, 
> primarily due to reports of strange bugs that appear to only affect gtk3 
> builds.  I'm not sure whether this is one of them or not, but if you DID 
> build against gtk3, try a build against gtk2 instead, and see if the 
> problem disappears, as other bugs people have reported when they built pan 
> against gtk3 have done when they rebuilt against gtk2.
>
> (As I've said in replies to gtk3-related bug reports previously, at some 
> point we do need to fix the gtk3 bugs and get it working properly, as 
> distros are beginning to deprecate gtk2 now.  However, as long as firefox 
> and thunderbird are built against gtk2, gtk2 is extremely unlikely to be 
> actually removed, and while that's on the horizon and firefox is actually 
> said to properly build against gtk3 now, I've seen no indications that 
> either Mozilla upstream or distros are actually switching to a gtk3 firefox 
> yet, so the threat /remains/ just that, a looming threat on the horizon, 
> nothing immediate.)

This is a gtk2 build. I have done a couple of gtk3 builds as well, but they 
have other little annoyances in addition to the one I reported here.
> 3) FWIW, I run git-pan, built against gtk2[2] but haven't updated since... 
> May 4... as I've had other things on my plate.
> ---
> [1] I have a block account with astraweb I think it is, but that's a 
> separate pan profile and I very rarely use it, so rarely I don't even 
> remember for sure what NSP I have!
>
> [2] No gtk3 on my system yet, and if possible I intend to keep it that way 
> until I can upgrade everything gtk-based to gtk3 at once.  That includes 
> not only pan and firefox, but claws-mail as well, and I have little idea 
> what their gtk3 porting status is, tho someone here mentioned that it had 
> been discussed on their mailing list, so I know they're at least looking at 
> it, but that's /all/ I know.

I'm a big Gnome-Shell fan and user so my system is fully infested with 
gtk3. However, Pan is kept in gtk2 to prevent unpleasant surprises.
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