At some point, I would like to see the return this feature from old Pan: numerical display of unread articles in a collapsed thread.

Normally in a text newsgroup I configure the header pane in Pan to display "Show matching articles' Threads" with "Match Only Unread Artciles" and threads collapsed. In old Pan, it looked like this:

http://doug.freeshell.org/files/pan10.png

Noticed at the end of the subject line, the number in () is the number of unread  articles.  

In new Pan, the same header pane looks like this:

http://doug.freeshell.org/files/pan11.png

There is no display of unread articles.  The thread might contain just 3 articles, it might be 100.  Who knows unless you expand the thread.

I like the extra information provided by the display of unread articles in ().  It helps my decide if I wish to bother to expand the thread or not.  One thing I do like about new Pan is the subject header is underlined if it's a old thread with new posts.  That's great as it provides even more information than old Pan in the header pane.

Ideally, I would like to keep the "underlined subject header for old threads with new posts" feature plus the "unread articles in ()" feature of old Pan.  In a glance, you would get a lot of information about a thread without expanding it.

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