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Bug 119518 - Manual decoding of multipart binaries
Manual decoding of multipart binaries
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: Pan
Classification: Other
Component: general
pre-0.14.1 betas
Other All
: Normal enhancement
: 0.14.3
Assigned To: Charles Kerr
Pan QA Team
: 107647 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-08-10 00:34 UTC by Torstein Sunde
Modified: 2006-06-18 05:04 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---



Description Torstein Sunde 2003-08-10 00:34:14 UTC
This is in response to the discussion "RFC: Detecting multiparts" on the
pan-users and pan-devel mailing lists.

As there's no proper standard for specifying/determining multiparts,
there will always be some cases Pan will fail to detect automatically.

I therefore request a feature for manual decoding of multiparts, like
Gravity and (Free) Agent have.

In Gravity, it works like this:
- Select the parts (articles) to decode.
- Select "Manual Decode" in the menu (or Ctrl-M).
- A new window pops up, listing the parts.
- Move parts up or down in the popup window to reorder, if necessary,
  and then click OK.
Comment 1 Charles Kerr 2003-08-10 03:39:40 UTC
Probably sometime during 0.14.x, but 0.14.2 is already full.
Comment 2 Torstein Sunde 2003-08-10 11:28:39 UTC
In the pan-devel mailing list, Duncan wrote:
> [...]  It would also be useful to be able to decode a post
> with parts missing, provided the first part is there.  [...]

The suggested manual decode command should allow you to combine
incomplete multiparts.  Just select the parts you wish to
combine, and select "Manual Decode".  (I think Gravity and/or
Agent can do this, but it's quite a while since I tried.)

> [...]  It would be nice to be able to tell PAN that when I tell
> it to d/l selected posts, and a multi-parter is selected but
> displayed as only a single part thus only has a single part
> selected, that yes, I STILL want all those parts d/led.  [...]

That could be achieved with a "Delete" button in rearrange window
for the suggested Manual Decode.  The window would then contain
all parts by default.
Comment 3 Charles Kerr 2003-08-11 15:16:32 UTC
Chris Petersen on pan-users:

I miss this feature of newswatcher (mac)..   it would thread (but not
"join") possible multipart binaries, and I could select the thread and
"extract binaries" (essentially shift-S in pan), or I could manually
select a group of articles, and apply a "manual extract" command that
brought up a dialog where I could reorder the parts as I wished
(sometimes they were out of order, etc), and then extract them.
Comment 5 Christophe Lambin 2004-02-11 21:52:56 UTC
*** Bug 107647 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***