Re: ANN: Pan 0.11.91 "Brutus Cyclops Dull"

[Patrick Dunn <patdunn dreamscape com>]

Hello Charles,

Monday, April 29, 2002, 12:10:32 PM, you wrote:

CK> Pan 0.11.91 "Brutus Cyclops Dull" has been released.
CK> It can be found at http://pan.rebelbase.com/.
 
CK> What is Pan?

CK>         Pan is a newsreader, loosely based on Agent and Gravity, which
CK>         attempts to be pleasant to use for new and advanced users alike.
CK>         It has all the typical features found in newsreaders and also
CK>         supports offline newsreading, article filtering, multiple connections,
CK>         and a number of extra features for power users and alt.binaries fans.

CK>         It's also the only Unix newsreader to get a perfect score on the
CK>         Good Net-Keeping Seal of Approval evaluations.  See
CK>         http://pan.rebelbase.com/features.html for the rest of the
CK>         sales pitch.

CK> About 0.11.91

CK> 	This is the second beta of 0.12.0, which is a port of Pan 0.11.3
CK> 	to gtk2.  The port adds better charset/internationalization support,
CK> 	usability improvements, and bugfixes.

CK> Changes Since 0.11.90

CK>     NEW FEATURES

CK>         * Added a user-configurable per-group default charset to use
CK>           when converting messages that don't specify their own charset.
CK>           In 0.11.90 Pan didn't know how to convert messages that didn't
CK>           specify a charset and just left the message blank.
CK>           Thanks for Frank Van Damme for reporting this. (#79275)

CK>         * Added new preferences option to get new headers from
CK>           subscribed groups automatically when starting Pan.

CK>     UPDATES

CK>         * Call bind_textdomain_codeset() when starting Pan to set the
CK>           output codeset for message translations.
CK>           Thanks to Kang JeongHee for suggesting this. (#78158)

CK>         * Refined `rot13 article body' to `rot13 selected text', since
CK>           most rot13ed text is just punchlines or a spoiler paragraph,
CK>           rather than an entire body.  Thanks to jim at cosx for
CK>           suggesting this. (#72015)

CK>         * Added `%g' and `%G' substitution fields into the download
CK>           directory path.  If used these will be replaced with
CK>           the.group.name/ and the/group/name/ when saving articles.
CK>           Thanks to Hans Verkuil for this suggestion. (#75591)

CK>     BUG FIXES

CK>         * The single-keystroke hotkeys (like 'n' for next article), which
CK>           disappeared in 0.11.90, are back! (#75478) (#78528)

CK>         * Fixed major memory leak in 0.11.90 that didn't free pictures
CK>           that were read inline.

CK>         * Fix bug that kept 0.11.90 from compiling on platforms that
CK>           can't take a NULL in a function expecting a va_list.
CK>           Thanks to chaton.jm for reporting this bug.  (#78112)

CK>         * Fixed 0.11.90 bug that didn't clear out the previous contents of
CK>           the compose window before adding the contents from the external
CK>           editor.  Thanks to Kang JeongHee for suggesting this. (#74885)

CK>         * Fixed 0.11.90 bug that caused filtering on new/unread/old to
CK>           not work properly.  Thanks to Philip Langdale for reporting
CK>           this bug. (#79669)

CK>         * Fixed 0.11.90 bug that didn't convert text to UTF-8 before
CK>           displaying it in the Task Manager window.  Thanks to
CK>           Kang Jeong-Hee for reporting this bug.  (#80004)

CK>         * Synchronize with 0.11.3 bugfixes that were made after 0.11.90
CK>           was released. (#73179) (#62909) (#78287)

CK>         * Fixed 0.11.2 bug that didn't show HTML messages.  We still don't
CK>           parse the HTML -- HTML has no place in Usenet -- but we at least
CK>           show the message now.  Thanks to Himanshu J. Gohel for reporting
CK>           this bug.  (#78723)

CK>         * If an article was selected (for, say, a context menu operation),
CK>           then clicking on the same article again wouldn't download & display
CK>           the article; you had to double-click, which was nonintuitive.
CK>           Now clicking on an already-selected article will download & display
CK>           the article.  Thanks to Dan Hensley for reporting this bug. (#78557)

CK>         * Other miscellaneous changes (#79377) (#69390)


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 Patrick                            mailto:patdunn dreamscape com