Beartooth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 11:53:17 -0400:
> Very Dumb Question : by 'double' I mean something I'm not sure of a better > word for -- two, occasionally simultaneous, instances (both for the same > user) with different sets of subscriptions to the same servers. That's not currently possible, at least not without "extraordinary" measures, such as compiling pan once, then changing the source to point to a different config dir and create a differently named binary, and recompiling. With "old" pan, one could play various tricks with a single pan instance, like setting up multiple news servers actually pointed at the same "real" news server, using those for catagorization. Since new-pan keeps everything in a single displayed list, that's no longer possible. It's not going to make it for pan 1.0 which is slated for later this month, but a frequent request has been at least a two-level tree, allowing some categorization, with groups appearing under whatever category. As it has been requested by a fairly broad range of people, and the single group list is undeniably harder to manage as the number of groups and general topics, and text vs single-part-binary (jpeg) vs few-part-binary (mp3) vs many-part-binary (iso) groups one subscribes to increases, this will almost certainly be added at some point, but I believe it'll require some reworking of current code, likely introducing a whole new series of bugs into the mix in the process. For that reason, I'm a bit doubtful it will make it into 1.1 either, as there's still enough other stuff for 1.1 without that. However, by 1.2, it could easily be the biggest single problem, so I'd guess it won't be far beyond that. I'd further guess that 1.1 will be out by the end of the year, and 1.2 first half of next year, if things continue at a reasonable clip. Meanwhile, you have a at least three alternatives. One is to continue running old-pan for at least some of your groups, either with new-pan for others, or old-pan exclusively (this will work best for those not needing the multiserver integration or better scaling of new-pan, both of which are normally going to be of most interest to binary group users), using multiple servers in old-pan as your categorizing mechanism. A second choice is as I mentioned, compiling pan, then modifying it a bit, to use a different config/data dir and compile to a different binary. For those who never compile anything, only using pre-built binaries from their distribution or whatever, this would be a huge step. However, for those already compiling pan from tarball, even those who don't actually do any coding, a global search and replace of the sources for pan2, replacing it with say pan3, to change the config dir, should be fairly simple. All you need to know besides the usual compile from source stuff is how to use the search and replace of a good text editor. A third choice would be to actually create another user, cloning your gtk settings and a few other minimal user config details, and simply use sudo or similar to start the second-user's version (realizing of course that there will be some additional complications, setting up X so the second user can use X resources of the first user... I don't know many of the details there, but know it can be done). -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
