On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 09:20:09 +0200, Thomas Fricke wrote: > Hi, > >> I got tired of 'get N days headers' being the default choice, so I >> changed it to 'get new headers' which is what I want 99% of the time. > correct me if I'm wrong, but there is an extra icon for this in the > toolbar and an entry in the menu? "Get New Headers for Seleced Groups"
Yes you are indeed right, thanks for pointing it out. The reason I bothered to change the code brings up a frequent problem: different people use the same application in many different ways that the programmer didn't expect. That's one reason for the unfortunate Creeping Feature Bloat we all complain about. (Well, I do, anyway.) My typical scenario is this: when I finish reading (or deciding not to read) all the latest posts in a group, I delete them all before exiting. I don't read every subscribed group every time I start pan, so fetching 'new headers for all subscribed groups' is a waste of time and bandwidth (and therefore money). So I don't do it. Yes, this leaves me the option of fetching 'all new headers for selected groups' but at this point there aren't any selected groups, so I can't actually use that option (yet). Instead, I click on the one group I want to check (which now has no unread articles, remember) and pan pops up the Get Headers dialog box which asks me to pick one of the three options -- and the option I always want is *not* the default. Your comment made me realize that pan is really making a bad assumption: it treats a subscribed group (with no unread articles) exactly the same way it treats a new group that you've never read before -- but they are not at all the same. Pan should not pop up the Get Headers dialog box for a subscribed group because 'get new headers' is the only reasonable choice 99% of the time. The popup dialog box should be reserved for unsubscribed groups only.` Comments/rebuttals? _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
