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Bug 347713 - Stores Score file in ~/News rather than ~/.pan2
Stores Score file in ~/News rather than ~/.pan2
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: Pan
Classification: Other
Component: general
pre-1.0 betas
Other All
: Normal normal
: 1.0
Assigned To: Charles Kerr
Pan QA Team
: 403169 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-07-16 21:23 UTC by Sam Morris
Modified: 2007-02-01 17:08 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Sam Morris 2006-07-16 21:23:01 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
It's pretty annoying how Pan keeps creating a ~/News directory and
storing the Score file inside it, when it could use ~/.pan2 which would
avoid cluttering up the user's HOME directory.

Steps to reproduce:


Actual results:


Expected results:


Does this happen every time?


Other information:
Comment 1 Charles Kerr 2006-07-20 18:23:46 UTC 
A lot of people have suggested this over the past couple of months.

The $HOME/News location was chosen for compatability with slrn,
but I suppose anyone using both Pan and slrn is going to be making
use of symlinks for the newsrc files already, so they could symlink
the scorefile as well.
Comment 2 Charles Kerr 2006-07-21 16:14:42 UTC 
Fixed for 0.104.

The only catch is that I don't want to break existing
configurations, so Pan uses ~/News/Score if it exists,
then falls back to ~/.pan2/Score otherwise.  But it
no longer creates ~/News/Score files from scratch.
Comment 3 Charles Kerr 2007-02-01 17:08:57 UTC 
*** Bug 403169 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***