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Pan 0.9.6 
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[ ] Remove task::emit_sockread_err, it's an anachronism.
[ ] Add to prefs the ability to specify what domain name is used when
    the user wants Pan to generate its own message-id header.
[ ] Filters
[ ] Attachments
[ ] Rewrite the rule UI by hand.
[ ] Fabrizio's offline bug.

[ ] Adam Huffman <bloch@verdurin.com>
    Here is the console output for the (Bug Buddy-generated) crash report I
    just sent:
    pan-CRITICAL **: file task-body.c: line 168 (task_body_describe):
    assertion `is_nonempty_string(message_id)' failed.
    ** WARNING **: unknown node: text
[ ] Magnus <elp@algonet.se>
    I think the I found a bug, when download new message and bodys in selected
    group it doesn't download the body if there is unread message in the group.
    Happen to me anyway.
[ ] Steve Glasser <sara27@earthlink.net>g
    After downloading newsgroup headers, using the "panel-resizing" button causes
    the mouse cursor to freeze--the only way to escape seems to be to kill X.
    Sorry no run log--couldn't copy it after the cursor froze
[ ] Michael Perry <mperry@tsoft.com>
    >How to resize the main window (806x520)?  I have a 800x600 resolution and
    >Pan is to big, I resize it and tell the different window managers (e,
    >windowmaker, sawfish, etc) to remember the size,,, Pan ignores it.
    This has been reported several times to the mailing list and on
    news.software.readers.  I have the same problem so I quit using pan because
    the display takes up all of my 800x600 display on my latitude ls laptop.
[ ] The acache footprint gets larger than I would like.  Maybe we should
    get rid of the message-id/filename hashtable.
[ ] Paul Smith <ozric99.nospam@lineone.net>
    I've selected the "use single click preview" option but am not getting
    the effect I'd like.  I'd like to press N to go to the next unread
    message and display it in the preview pane similar to pressing Ctrl-U in
    Outlook Express, but I still seem to have to actually click on the
    message in the thread pane to display it in the preview pane.  Is there
    something I'm doing wrong?  Apologies if I've missed something obvious.                         
[ ] Sean Tomlinson <steelrat@slip.net>
    Aluminum Foil
    Simon Templar
    acmay@mace.penguinpowered.coma
    Optionally stop the download.
    Add an option to force a grouping & decode of selected articles as a multipart
[ ] "best_before_'89" <ohmwork@technologist.com>
    When I search for an article by a certain sender, it gets found. The
    problem is that when it is highlighted, and I click on it, it does not
    open.  I have to click on a message either side of it first, THEN I go
    back and click on the found message to open it.
[ ] Adam Huffman <bloch@verdurin.com>
    fresh installation of 0.9.3, went into the Preferences menu while
    downloading new headers, clicked Apply and Pan exited with
    Gdk-ERROR **:  undefined font type
    John LeMay Jr.
    Sounds like the problem I had with fonts. The default Gdk font is some variant
    of Times that isn't necessarily installed with every distro. Reset the fonts
    once and I *think* this goes away.
    The real issue is that the initial font Pan starts with isn't the same as the
    font that is saved to the config file the first time you select "apply" from the
    pref's dialog.
[ ] color for text window doesn't work in html mode
[ ] Reserve a connection for reading articles, so that even when new headers
    are downloading you can read an article.
[ ] When you go back to the articles tab from the message tab, the
    view is down at the bottom of the window instead of up at the
    current article, where it should be.
[ ] Aluminum Foil Ball <theball@bigfoot.com> 
    This is for saving the article body itself.  I was sort of surprised by
    the differing interface between saving articles and saving attachments.
    I find the interface for saving articles very difficult to use, as does
    the original poster.  I wouldn't mind having that changed to work more
    like the one for saving attachments.
    In fact, it would be groovy if they were both the same operation.  Just
    select a zero file along with a picture; the zero file gets saved under
    the subject (because there would be not encoded filename) and the binary
    gets saved as the encoded name or subject as selected by the checkbox.
[ ] John Hill
    Just took a look at the "Save Attachments As..." dialog.
    The "Location" and "Filename" fields are definitely something I'd like
    to see in a "Save Article As..." dialog.
[ ] shortcut to "get new articles"
[ ] Martin Cosgrave <martian@marsbard.com>                                                                                
    It would be nice to have some sort of bandwidth limitation; since the
    news server is usually the closest thing it seems to get high bitrates
    at the expense of other more distant services.
[ ] Simon Templar <simont@infomaniak.ch>
    Decode a random group of articles selected by user
[ ] posting attachments
[ ] Jacob Ils? Christensen
    Reduce Grouplist memory footprint by separating subscribed from unsubscribed
[ ] Bruce Wolk <bawolk@ucdavis.edu>
    Wants to re-order or remove columns from the thread view
[ ] Sylpheed's fixed-font
[ ] Article.size
[ ] SCORING.
[ ] XMLize the rules file.
[ ] Paulo Filipe Mira <paulo.mira@netcabo.pt>
    Would like a global setting so that "Save Attachments" would go
    into a subdirectory of the downloads directory, where the subdirectory
    is named after the group.
[ ] Eric Ortega
    I understand that the "reserved" connection is generally for getting new
    article headers and article bodies and whatnot, but perhaps there should
    be a further (internal) distinction between when to use up all available
    connections and when not.
    If we made the "reserved" connection only for "browsing/reading" purposes,
    then it would make sense for a command like "get all new headers for
    subscribed groups" wouldn't chew that connection up.
[ ] "Save" should be available from the popup in the text window.
[ ] I like the idea of a log-file pane/window.  The only change I would
    suggest from the above mentioned line would be some sort of visual alert,
    Perhaps another button next to the tasks remaining button which shows
    when there are unbrowsed errors in the log-file.  Clicking (or hot-keying)
    would open up the log-file pane/window
[ ] ability to pause tasks in the task list
[ ] ability to pause the entire task list
[ ] serialize tasks
[ ] consider 'save article' appending to ~/News/Pan/Folders/groupname.mbox
[ ] better charset support
[ ] Jabali Pragya <jabali@lineone.net>
    Its overall colouring scheme I found a bit confusing - there is no
    way of telling whether there is a new article in a particular thread
    other than looking at the number of articles in the unread column.
[ ] Need a better way of reporting errors.
[ ] option to auto-expand threads when reading one.
[ ] option to auto-expand threads.  (Add to preferences, it should be default)
    (Add to preferences, it should be default)
[ ] Steve Cox <stevec@canaries.co.uk>
    Just to make things more complicated/specific, what about having
    multiple user profiles under the user section of preferences
    (Like the multiple news servers etc).  Then in the newsserver
    preferences, a default user profile could be set.
[ ] Juergen Koethnig <j.koethnig@cityweb.de>
    I have just installed pan 0.9. I had tried former versions before
    and was not satisfied. But this version works to my satisfaction up
    to one point: I want to use it for offline work with the newsgroups.
    So I want to set up the tasks offline, go online and tell pan to do
    the tasks and go offline again.  Things work fine up to the point
    that I do: online > online/offline settings > online > apply > ok
    (global setting is: pan should quietly stay offline until told
    otherwise). The tasks are marked 'offline' in the task manager before
    doing the above mentioned procedure, they are marked 'queued'
    afterwards, but nothing happens.  After a while all tasks are marked
    failed. No task is executed. I have to finishpan and start it again
    (have lost all tasks by that time) and can execute the tasks then
    manually (i.e. all settings are properly made). But then I can do
    everything online right from the start.  Who knows, what I am doing wrong?

(Code Cleanups)

[ ] Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netmeister.org>
    Yeah, the copying is something that I would like to see improved as well
    - if you want to copy *from* pan *to* pan, you need to highlight and use
    ctrl+c to copy and ctrl+v to paste.  To copy'n paste from something else
    to pan you use the mouse - both work fine, but I'd prefer it if you could
    just use the mouse in pan as well.
[ ] Robert Marshall" <robert@chezmarshall.freeserve.co.uk>
    As a recent new user of pan, I've had similar difficulties, what
    I do at the moment is to (offline) mark the articles that I want
    downloaded, then after going online, I traverse the groups where
    there are marked items and queue them at that point. I make sure
    that there are unread items in all the groups where I've marked
    items to make the traversal easier. 

(Unrepeatable/Unconfirmed Bugs)

[ ] "Robert S. McMillan" <rmcmilla@centurytel.net>
    Last night Pan was 48% through saving a binary when the server
    went down for scheduled maintenence.  It wasn't scheduled through
    me, so I didn't know it was coming.  Anyway, Pan quit responding to
    input and started grabbing all available CPU cycles.  I left Pan running
    while I checked the server.  "No ping responses... Crap, it's down for
    real."  Then I used top to see that Pan was using 93% of a K6-2/500.
[ ] "Robert Marshall" <robert@chezmarshall.freeserve.co.uk>
    Also on the copying, I've noticed that if I select with the mouse the
    text only highlights up to column (about 30), the copy works on all the
    columns its just the highlighting that appears to be faulty.  (both
    these messages applied to the cvs snapshot downloaded on Tuesday evening
    (GMT+1))
[ ] Adam Warner <iconsult@ihug.co.nz>
    For example, I just posted to nz.test and aus.test (nz.test; aus.test).
    If I follow up to nz.test then the cross-posting works.
    However if I follow up to aus.test then I am only posting to aus.test.
    This is a verified problem. There also appears to be an issue where
    replies to a cross-post are only seen in one of the newsgroups.
[ ] Jim Henderson <jhenderson@bigfoot.com>
    The first one is that the "Apply to Incoming" seems to be offset by one
    rule - if I disable the last rule, it gets applied but the rule before
    it (which I left alone) doesn't.  Looks like an array index is just
    offset by one.

[x] articlelist_articles_read_changed should filter out noise before adding
    an idle func.
[x] German Gomez Garcia <german@ksoft.dnsalias.net>
    I've just downloaded pan 0.9.4 and it works great, just one thing
    to report when you have just downloaded some new articles and start reading
    them inmediately they won't get marked as read, even if you leave the group
    and reenter it, the articles you read before appears as new (red icon)
    although they are cached locally. Once you leave and reenter every article
    you read appears as read (grey icon). I'm not sure if it is a bug because
    after looking at the source (articlelist.c, get_column_1_pixmap()) it
    appears that the bug is quite evident, as article_is_new() is checked
    before article_is_read(), so I don't know if this is a bug or a feature.
    Anyway I report it.

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  Pan 0.10
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Charles: First

[ ] In composer: add "Save as Draft" and "Delete"
[ ] some way to do one-shot tasks without waiting a turn in the queue.

Charles: Sooner

[ ] Saving of queued tasks
[ ] Nicer handling of message headers (ie, a list of commonly-used headers)

Charles: Later

[ ] filters a la Windows' XNews
[ ] a case-sensitivity toggle for rule criteria? 
[ ] Don't load the unsubscribed groups unless "All" mode is on.
[ ] replace ^I with spaces when posting a message to skip tab damage
[ ] Why do we have task-body and task-bodies?  Can these be merged?
[ ] spellchecker
[ ] optional disabling of User-Agent header

Charles: Maybe

[ ] next/prev in articlelist should skip over killfile'd articles
    Gary Bust <engb@arlut.utexas.edu>
[ ] Jason Poynting <jasonp@bigfoot.com>
    And finally one feature I'd really like to see is the option to
    catch up a group when you download new headers. This would be a great
    help when trying to spot new articles in groups I selectively read.
[ ] tree view for groups?
[ ] the subject Find: filter doesn't find new subjects nested in a thread
[ ] bozo filter on articlelist toolbar
[ ] I'd like to select the whole text of the message (like ctrl-a in (Francesco)
[ ] For the newsgroup list pane, I find it irritating to have to set the
    properties for each of the groups I subscribe, I rather liked Agent's way
    of setting default properties for all of the subscribed newsgroups, and
    being able to 'adjust' using the property for a particular newsgroup to
    override the default properties.

Matt

[ ] zag's plug-in-an-editor RFE


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  Pan 1.0 
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[Unclaimed -- may or may not happen. part longterm TODO and part wish tracking]

[ ] Denis Manente <denis72@libero.it>
    Command-line arguments for doing Pan without a gui, suitable for cron jobs
[ ] Japie <House-Mouse@hetnet.nl>
    a wish for Pan, wich is already more than complete.
    -showing emoticons as images. (like mozilla does)
[ ] Jed S. Baer
    I agree. I don't see any need to maintain, on my machine, the whole
    catalog of groups my server offers. I'd rather have faster load time and
    a smaller memory footprint. Going along with this, I'd also like to be
    able to subscribe by just typing in the name of a group, instead of
    having to retrieve the list from the server, load it up, and select a
    group. For someone who's experienced with news, this would be much
    easier, I think - and faster.
[ ] Jan Schaumann
    do we want Pan to support "posted-and-mailed" -
    http://www.newsreaders.com/tech/draft-zawinski-p%26m.txt ?
[ ] Jan Schaumann
    do we want Pan to support "mail-copies-to" -
    http://www.newsreaders.com/misc/mail-copies-to.html ?
[ ] Jan Schaumann
    do we want pan to support spoilers -
    http://www.newsreaders.com/spoilers/ ?
[ ] Gediminas Paulauskas <menesis@delfi.lt>
    It would be nice to have an option to automatically import .newsrc at
    startup and export it on exit.
[ ] "Robert Marshall" <robert@chezmarshall.freeserve.co.uk> 
    On the import and export, I've noticed that if you use the browse facility
    then '.' files are not shown, so if you're trying to import a .newsrc file
    somewhere you're not able to select it!
    It would also be nice to have the option to export a .newsrc file
    containing only subscribed groups.
[ ] queue.c's g_slist_append is non-optimal (GLib 2.0: Use GQueue)
[ ] Ari Pollak <compwiz@bigfoot.com>
    Pan suggestion - have an option to check all subscribed newsgroups for
    new messages on startup.
[ ] Jim Henderson <jhenderson@bigfoot.com>
    Date/time is an option I like to have available, though, since I use
    Netscape to read the same groups at work and know what time I'm caught
    up through on the two servers I use most...
    (Analysis: plugging in date/time into a rule and saving the rule to
    have to apply it would be annoying; better to have the 'apply' button
    let the user fill in fields somehow)
[ ] Jason Baietto <jason@metrolink.com>
    I absolutely love pan, but I have a minor feature request.
    Can you add resettable per-server download counters so that
    I can keep track of how many megabytes I've downloaded from
    a given server?  Pan makes it so easy to download stuff that
    I've exceeded my nntp provider's limits twice now.
    Thanks in advance and thanks for a terrific product.
[ ] "Laurent Duperval" <laurent.duperval@uforce.com>
    I'd like an Online/offline button for each server, so I don't have
    to go to the Prefs window when I want to change the online/offline status.
[ ] Hi, I think I just found a bug. I'm using 0.8.1beta6 from cvs.
    When I delete an (multipart) article in server A while I'm downloading
    the binary attachment (multipart) from the same article in server B
    will cause one (or more?) of the multipart that has been downloaded to
    be deleted, hence when pan tries to combine all the parts pan will
    complain that one part is missing. Does that make sense at all? If I'm
    not being clear please let me know.
[ ] Matthew Lenz <hohlraum@nocturnal.org>
    1) make 'tasks' window a pane and tab (like groups, threads, articles) and
    most importantly make queued tasks remembered and able start where they
    left off from one run of pan to the next. (maybe I'm high and pan already
    does this)
[ ] Matthew Lenz <hohlraum@nocturnal.org>
    i dunno how newshark does this, but it associates a 'life' percentage
    to articles and gives you an idea as to how much longer a specific article
    (or binary post cluster) will be around before being dropped from the
    server.  It also lets you sort by this percentage in the download pane.
    (so you can be sure to download the oldest article first)
[ ] Matthew Lenz <hohlraum@nocturnal.org>
    preview a binary attachment.  (for example only download and decode the
    first N number of parts and then launch in associated viewer.)


[ ] Task scheduling
[ ] Task saving/reloading
[ ] python/perl hooks
[ ] It can open all kinds of links without forcing netscape on me
[ ] virtual folders - one for programming, one for gardening
[ ] x-face support?
[ ] add task saving/loading so that task lists can be saved and run later.
[ ] Let the user go offline immediately after a task is completed, instead of
    recycling sockets.  (This will probably be in the form of putting the
    "Close server connection after N seconds idle" control in the online
    preferences dialog)
[ ] Add support for SSL. <http://www.moxienet.com/lynx/> has patches for SLL
    support in Lynx, which points the way pretty nicely.  (Note to users:
    I need an account on an SSL news server;  please mail charles@superpimp.org
    if you can provide one for testing.)
[ ] Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netmeister.org>
    Shortcut to edit a message in pan.sendlater, possibly 'e'
    (Analysis: just make it more prominent in the menus)
[ ] binary retrieval druid (wizard like for automatic binary "sucking").
[ ] cron! cron! cron!
[ ] "Yes, and go offline afterwards" choice in "Go Online?" dialog
[ ] perhaps add 'previous unread article' back in
[ ] add 'next group' and 'previous group' back in
[ ] Add the option to track any thread in which the user-specified author
    is a participant
[ ] specify which server to send posts through, rather than always using
    current server
[ ] search headers from multiple groups
[ ] steal gnome-print code from GEdit
[ ] delete old articles as a group grows to larger than N articles
[ ] pan-users: status bar for "no new headers" "message sent successfully!" etc
    (gnome_app_flash, if we only had a status bar. :)
[ ] group selector for crossposting, so you don't have to type in the names.
[ ] pan-users: single-click to open all threads  (>2x)
[ ] xnews-like text toolbar
[ ] pan-users: extern app to pass messages through before they're posted.
[ ] DMACon: Default to fixed width fonts in read/compose
[ ] prefs option to check server for new messages when you load a group
[ ] more search options to "find" dialog? -- filter by date
[ ] log viewer improvements: coloring based on priority, error, etc
[ ] per-group configuration options: logging
[ ] group-centric design?
[ ] "Michael J. Venables" <michael@ronin-group.org>
    an indicator as to online status
    (There's a status light graphic under the "Online Settings"
    but I can't see that that actually gets displayed anywhere.)
[ ] "Michael J. Venables" <michael@ronin-group.org>
    a button to toggle online status
[ ] "Michael J. Venables" <michael@ronin-group.org>
    a leech function (like NewsBot (http://www.sb-software.com/))
    for viewing, filtering and grabbing all binaries (independent
    of the news thread viewer itself)
[ ] "Michael J. Venables" <michael@ronin-group.org>
    encrypt the password in .gnome/Pan

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  Pan 1.0 (general)
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** Documentation.

   Documentation is key.  We definitely need a users manual.  An on-line
   help file would be nice too, but I'm not sure what the standard help
   file is supposed to be like in GNOME (windows had the common help file
   format and stuff).  The FAQ needs to grow and spread apart into
   separate sections, and should also be distributed with the tarball.
   Basically, we need to make a 'docs' subdir and use it.
