(My apologies for taking so long to reply.)
micke> That is, we release new version quite often, so running a
micke> version that is almost 6 months old is not recommended
You are right, of course; I've now downloaded and installed 1.1.
micke> And if you don't specify --db-name it will use the name
micke> from --db-file as the default and since you have to
micke> specify a file name it seems perfectly logical to me to
micke> use that name as the default database name.
There is one problem with this, however. What usually happens is that
my db filenames are rather brief and using them as db-names (in the
plucker db-manager) is not overly helpful if the topics are
related. For example, if I download an HTML doc <titled>: "An
Interview with Seymour Cray", I will typically call the db-file
"cray.pdb". If I also then download another document <titled> "The T3
Cray Supercomputer", I'll probably call it, "crayT3.pdb".
I just think it would be more helpful if the db-manager showed:
"An Interview with Seymour Cray"
"The T3 Cray Supercomputer"
rather than:
cray.pdb
crayT3.pdb
micke> What you wish for is an unreliable way of specifying the
micke> database name. A text file will not have any TITLE tag and
micke> a HTML file might not have a TITLE tag, but all databases
micke> DO HAVE a file name.
You have a valid point. In such cases, it would seem resonable for
plucker to default to the db-filename (or perhaps the url (as netscape
does, especially when ftp urls are bookmarked)).
To summarize: If the document is taggged with a title, use it
(perhaps a new option --use-doc-title); if not do something
reasonable like use the db-name or the url. I would much prefer if
plucker displayed the document title (if available, or "(none)" if
one is not available) in the db-manager.
I just had an idea: how about just adding an additional toggle to the
db-manager to display the document-title in addition db-name, size,
date, etc.
I have another question (oh, no!): when a URL that has not been
downloaded is followed, plucker displays a dialog for which one of
the buttons is "Copy URL". I assumed this meant that the url would be
copied into the cut-buffer so it can be pasted somewhere else (I
tried pasting into the datebook so I could download it the next day),
but this doesn't seem to be the case.
