This was reported before but I thought it had been fixed. I'm too lazy ATM to go looking for bug numbers, but it's still crashing on me here, if there are more than a few displayed headers.
Even in this group, gmane.com.gnome.apps.pan.user, with all messages displayed back several months, trying a simple subject or author (combined) search for "pan" crashes it every time. I get pan typed, wait about a second for the search to take effect, and VWALLA, no more pan! It's interesting to note that if I filter out read messages so only a few headers are displayed, the search returns correctly. I'm not sure whether it's finding a particular post to crash on, or whether it's simply the volume of posts, but it's consistent. That brings up another thing. I KNOW this one's bugged as I either bugged it myself or added a comment to someone else's (IDR which). PAN's failure to save state, at least during group switch (as the old pan did), means on a crash, pan can lose status on MANY HUNDREDS OF POSTS OVER DOZENS OF GROUPS! I know. It happened to me yesterday when I tried to do a search, and crashed. Because old-pan at least saved when switching groups, I got in the habit of switching to a different group and back every so often even when working in the same group for long periods and thousands of posts, just so pan wouldn't lose read-message tracking if it crashed. Now, I'm finding myself having to actually quit pan and restart. While the startup time is much better with post-0.90 pan so that's not the problem it would have been with old-pan, IMO, having to quit the app to save state, when that state can represent several hours of work and a good 10-30 minutes of recovery if one has been really active, is not a good "feature" to have remaining at 1.0-rc1 time. =8^( Hmm... looking at my bugzilla.gnome mail, this last one is: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=349044 Preferences are not saved when edited? -- 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
