XPN 0.6.5 released

[Franz Steinhäusler]

On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 17:43:28 GMT, Nemesis <nemesis at nowhere.invalid>
wrote:

>Mentre io pensavo ad una intro simpatica "Franz Steinhäusler" scriveva:
>
>> Ah, great. I changed, this was not working immediatly.
>> So I remembered, most often you have to restart the App, and so its is
>> working.
>
>Here is working fine.


I am on windows, is there maybe a difference (?).

>
>> Small Notice: There was the warning then: Another Instance is running,
>> I pressed yes.
>
>XPN uses the file xpn.lock to see if there is another istance running,
>if the program is not closed correctly it doesn't remove this file so
>you get the warning.

I see.

>
>>>that's an optimization I've thinking about for a while ... but at the
>>>moment I don't know how to implement it.
>> I see, you have to remember after refreshing the list the position and
>> the state of the folding. I can imagine, this is not trivial.
>
>That's right. You should also remember the open/closed threads ... at
>least the one with the article selected.
>

Anyway, not soo important.

>> I'm sure, I will discover some more useful things about your program!
>> In some cases, it already beats forte agent!
>
>Thank you. Agent is (was) a great software I've been using it for a long
>time.

Cool, we have both an equal starting-point. ;)

>>
>> Some remarks:
>
>> * threads are somtimes not assigned correctly, this means, that
>> one thread is divided into two.
>> I subscribed to wxPyhton mailing list in gmane, and there is:
>> One thread
>> Applications written in wxPyhton
>> and another
>> RE: Applications written in wxPyhton
>
>threading is based on the References header and then on the subject, you
>can have problems with mailing-lists cause mail-agents sometimes do not
>produce the References header but only the In-Reply-To.
>Another problem could be the date, before building the threads XPN
>reorders the articles by date ... but if the date in the article is
>wrong it can confuse the threads.

Aha, I don't understand all the details anyway, in Forte the same
thread was ordered in.


>
>> but this (is) or should be *one* thread.
>
>Yes.
>
>> * the enter key is not working in some dialogs (for example in search)
>> and Esc to cancel the dialog. (or is that a gkt issue?)
>
>It's a focus issue, in the search dialog the focus is set on the entry.
>The Esc key is not binded to any button by default.
>
That would be convenient, pressing "Enter" to perform the awaited 
process and cancel to abandon the dialogue.

>> * the find dialog is sometimes not working
>
>What exactly is not working?

Sorry, I think, I have made an error myself. That means I typed the
search string in "From", where I excpeted to look for headers search.

>
>> * to mark more than one article at one time (to be able to mark
>> multiple articles at one as read, ...)
>
>Yes but selecting more then one article introduces some difficulties I
>preferred to avoid for the moment ;-)

Ok.

If you don't mind, I will make a thorough test :-)
I don't want to bother more than necessary.
I want to make it happen, that XPN will be my "default" Newsreader!!!


Many thanks again for your answers and this wonderful piece of
sofware!


-- 
Franz Steinhaeusler