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Frank Peters posted on Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:27:50 -0400 as excerpted: |
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> Pan is another wonder of the open source world. There is literally |
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> nothing else in its class. It's good to know that development is alive. |
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> Pan cannot upload binary files |
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That's changing! =:^) HMueller recently added that feature, as well as |
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the long awaited score-based actions (auto-delete/mark-read/download-to- |
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cache/download-and-save) in his git fork (master branch). The features |
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aren't stable enough for khaley's testing branch yet, let alone |
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integration, which pkovar would nail into the official gnome git repo and |
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ultimately into an official release, but they are there, and uploading at |
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least works (I've not tested auto-* actions, yet, myself, having just |
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rebuilt with them included). |
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If you're interested, join pan's user list (on gmane.org as a newsgroup |
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if you wish, that's how I do it). I have a pan-9999 ebuild that can be |
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set to all the different repos and branches using environment variables |
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set in /etc/portage/env/news-nntp/pan-9999, with a corresponding file |
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listing all the repos (mostly on github) and branches I know about, but |
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I've only just redesigned it and used it once, myself, so it's not |
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public, yet. But I've already asked and gotten a bit of interest on the |
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pan-user list for them, so plan on posting them there shortly. |
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FWIW, pan can build against gtk3 now, too, tho I won't be personally |
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testing that out myself for some time as pretty much everything else gtk |
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I use here is gtk2 only (including firefox), so it'll be awhile before I |
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even have gtk3 installed, here. |
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> It's not that I have some extreme irrational bias against graphical |
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> software, but, in the right hands, console based programs can still |
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> perform wonderful things in terms of basic output. Ncurses and s-lang |
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> are very capable development tools. But for some reason these things |
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> are not appreciated by the average user who, if given a choice, will |
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> usually gravitate to a graphical solution. |
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I use mc for sys-admin-hat file management and editing, only using the kde |
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graphical tools for user-hat stuff (like sorting thru media files, where |
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icon-thumbnails are quite useful =:^). But mail, news, rss, web- |
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browsing, etc, are more user-hat stuff here, so I tend to prefer |
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graphical tools for them. |
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The thing that has me hooked on ktorrent is all the nice statistical |
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graphics it has. CLI or semi-gui like ncurses can match the raw |
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functionality, but hardly the graphical stuff (tho semi-gui could come |
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close). |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |