Lookin' good! As promised, it's faster, smaller, and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound.
Some features I really loved in 0.9x seem to have disappeared or changed for the worse. Before I post these as feature requests over on bugzilla (read: learn how to use Bugzilla, set up an account, and all that other stuff I'm too lazy to do) I thought I should bring 'em up here and make sure this isn't just a case of Stupid User Syndrome. 1) You can no longer associate a specific posting profile with each group, or designate a default profile. Profile editing rewrites posting.xml to list the identities in alphanumeric order, and the posting UI defaults to the first one alphabetically. I can work around that by naming the profiles carefully so that the one I use most often is "0", but groups that I prefer another identity still have problems because the default loads first and populates the extra headers, which may not be overwritten by the alternate profile if I change. Why is this a Bad Thing? Well, suppose I normally post with my real name, some customized headers like X-Whatever-I-Think-Of. But when I'm posting to alt.whistleblowers to rat out my thieving boss at the CIA, I want to use a different profile that strips all personally identifiable information out. Because the new message UI populates all headers with the default posting profile before you get a chance to switch to a different profile, all that personal stuff is still present in the extra headers; I have to remember to go into the extra headers list each time I post a message and strip those out. So... what I'd like to see is going back to the old way of (optionally) associating a newsgroup with a different profile than the default, and only load up extra headers for that profile. Or, if you change from the default to a nonstandard profile, strip out the custom headers from the default and add back only those explicitly included in the alternate profile. 2) Allow a custom font in the message editing window If I'm using the built-in message editor, 0.9x used to allow me to choose between the monospace or custom font. Unless I'm writing something that requires fixed spacing for some tabular layout, I'd just as soon see my own writing in a prettier font and only switch to mono as needed. I actually wrote a patch for this one myself - took all of two lines in the user prefs GUI and another two lines added to the posting GUI. Now all I need is "submitting patches to bugzilla for dummies" and I'm all set. I just happened to subscribe minutes before Charles posted his "Four Ways..." message (which went right into my permanent Howto folder in Evolution) so at least I know where to find Bugzilla. 3) Allow customization of User-Agent header and Message-ID domain This goes back to my paranoid desire for privacy in issue (1)... if I'm posting to alt.whistleblowers, I don't want the domain name in the message ID or pan's, uh, colorful descriptive text to give me away so easily. Sure, my friends at the NSA can sniff out the IP address and demand login records from my ISP to get a positive ID on me, but I'd at least like them to have to work at uncovering my secret identity. 4) More font choices for different categories Specifically I was looking at the message titles window and thinking, "It sure would be nice if threads with unread messages were in a completely different font or at least a different color". You can flag different scores in different colors in the header pane, why not do the same for other message statuses... stati...whatever? I think that covers everything I'm losing sleep over. Is any of that stuff already in the development version and I'm just missing it, or was it taken out of 0.9x deliberately? -- Peter B. Steiger Cheyenne, WY _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
