Am Mon, 17 Oct 2011 20:13:48 +0000 schrieb SciFi: > Hi, > > I should probably post the concerns I'm still having with Pan. I sent > this to imhotep82 (Heinrich Müller, before he became judgefudge), and to > lostcoder (K. Haley) some months ago. These will likely apply to > whatever platform I end-up building. My current Pan build can be seen > with this post's headers under User-Agent (I'll send judgefudge the > patches that "enhance" that string, soonish). > Which patch? I see the user-agent with the git branch and commit checksum already in my headers. But feel free to drop me a mail. > -*- > > 1. > > a) For Pan's HTML highlighting feature (View->Body_Pane->Highlight > URLs) > we need the Tilde character '~' to be accepted as part of the URL > (sometimes I call this a 'squiggle' <g>). Presently, Pan is stopping > the highlighting/copying at just-before this character when it's part of > the honest-to-goodness URL. All unix-type servers use this character to > denote a user's "home folder" no matter how it is structured on that > server. We see these kinds of URLs all over the developers lists at > Gmane and in the world-wide Usenet. For now, we must do the drag-copy > of the URL and manually paste it into our browsers. There are several > more characters that ought to be acceptable -- look at the way Gmane > scrambles the URLs and email-addys, such Pan-highlighting does not seem > to include '+' and '-', either; but don't take this as a sole-missing > list. ;) > > b) Some other characters are being accepted by Pan's Highlighting code, > which should *not* be accepted. For example, when someone uses > parentheses for the URL such as (http://whatever.com/) , the trailing > right-parens ')' is being highlighted as if it is part of the URL, and > being passed to the browser as well (which likely gets a 404). > (I know this logic could make one go crazy trying to code-around it, but > that's why we have open URL/URI type libraries, isn't it? <g>) > > -*- Good point, noted. > 2. > > Every time I start-up Pan, the Header pane itself is initially "too > wide" with its scroll-bar opening to the right-side. In my setup, it's > the Bytes column's numbers are barely visible, it's been scrolled-off > the view that far. >(...) I can't reproduce your errors here. I had those, too, but I found a fix that works for me and incorporated it into the code. I'll take another look if I have the time.... > 3. Some of the IP-Number Displays still don't show the Port Number, > mainly in the pop-up "yellow boxes", but in other areas also such as in > the Posting Profile preferences at "Post Articles via:" drop-down list. > My explanation: > I use stunnel going to/from every NNTP server anymore. All network > paths in Pan need to be set to '127.0.0.1:<port>' for the corresponding > entry in my stunnel.conf file. I had been adding several lines in my > /etc/hosts file to give various pseudo-hostnames to 127.0.0.1, just so I > could get Pan to show each choice in a different way. I don't know why, > but OSX seems to want to go outside the box, still, to try finding the > route for those pseudo-hosts, or some crazy related notion (blame Apple > again for messing-up the standard *ix methods). So I've gone back to > entering precisely '127.0.0.1' inside Pan, but now I've lost being able > to discern which line mean which path thru stunnel. See? ;) > I'll add it. > -*- > > 4. I would love to see some visual indicators for some text-formatting > settings being used. I need to see whether word-wrap is in effect, for > the main issue here -- there are posts that don't much give a clue, > because they would look "ugly" either way. ;) Things like that. I > would pick the area on the main Pan window to put these > indicators/selectors, after the various "Match" icons and a > separator-line thingy. Could be done, I'll think of it. > > -*- > > 5. Before accepting a "version 1.0" of Pan, I have written requests > over the years to have more "multi-threading" incorporated into the > program. > (...) Pan's error lies in the design: It loads those things in the main thread, so all gets stuck. A callback would be perfect here. > > c) I'm sure I've reported more needs for "multi-threading", some may > have been opened as official bug-reports and carefully documented > already. Otherwise, I've lost my listings -- I'll probably need to go > thru the mailing-lists and read my archived posts one-by-one and > re-generate these points. :( > > -*- > > 6. I'm still having my problem in the GUI when I highlight any text for > preparation for copy-&-paste operation. I reported it here to the > pan-user list some months ago: Honestly, I blame OSX for this :p
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